From the day we were born we were given a number, we were taught what's forbidden and what's allowed, we were placed inside molds and frameworks, and boundaries were set for us. A script was written for all of us. But what we don't understand is that we have enormous power to produce reality. Yes, any reality we want. No, it isn't easy. It takes independent thinking, observation and learning.
Life is like an augmented-reality computer game that you move through with your thoughts. Part of your soul is embodied here in a physical body, there's a whole life script, there's a beginning and there's an end, and freedom of choice is granted. There's no joystick here. Everything here you move with your thoughts.
The thing is that in our evolution, inside every one of us, at one stage or another, something wakes up, and usually it comes under the cover of suffering of one kind or another. You've had enough of something: illness, a breakup, a death. There's no shortage of trouble, may it never come our way. But something in you is calling you. That's your soul, and it's calling you to wake up, to really understand the movie. Society likes the person who stays in line. People don't realize that what they want is what decides. They forget that this is a game whose governing principle is free choice. People don't write their own story, they let other people write it for them, they react to situations instead of creating them, they let their fears run their lives instead of stopping for a moment and developing independent thinking through inquiry and asking questions.
Your soul exists whether you believe in the Creator or not. Everything here in Creation comes from the same Source, and that Source puts on and takes off shapes and colors and faces, and does everything it can to wake us up. As they say: wake up, sweetie!