"It's only when we've lost everything, that we're free to do anything"
No matter how free someone claims to be there are still a lot of restriction, making money to pay rent, food and etc., follow certain trend (mainstream or not) to win the approval of certain people, meeting expectation from family and love ones. Living under these circumstances one can't be fully free. Only if you have none of these expectation, responsibility, approval, acceptance, and etc can we be fully free and fully understand what we really wanted and desire. I think this quote from fight club is powerful