The Freedom to Leave, the Freedom to Stay

Your fate is written from birth to death. Even when you were born, you came into the world in full agreement with the rules—almost the same old rules as the ones that have governed your whole kind. Service is so tightly interwoven with life that sometimes you yourself don’t understand where one ends and the other begins. You chose your wife yourself as well—once and for all—and all that remains is to love her with all your soul. Not a step to the left, not a step to the right: boundaries are set for you in everything. There is only one freedom—freedom of choice. You are free to run away, leaving everything behind, or to stay—but then you will have to accept everything too. Nothing more is given. And nothing more is needed!