Freedom of Life?

What is freedom? Why do we have freedom? Are we truly free? Personally, I believe freedom is the ability to choose a direction or path we want to take. Humans do have freedom but as oxymoronic as it sounds, we have a restricted freedom. We have laws to guide us (even though we choose whether or not we follow the rules) and we have social moral codes that we follow (if we don't we can be exiled or looked at as an outcast.) I do believe that God has a purpose for all of us, but he gives us the freedom to choose whether or not we want to live out the life he has for us. We have the freedom to do good/ we have the freedom to do wrong. In existentialism, it is said that we make our morals and define ourselves by what we do; I agree. If we do just things we can be defined as just, if we do things that are wrong then we can be looked at as unjust; though this is true, each individual has their own definition of moral and immoral things.
The topic of freedom is a complex one. Everyone has their own concept of freedom. People feel free because they have religion, others don't feel free because of religion. People only feel freedom if they are harming someone and others feel truly free if they are helping. "We are free to create our own essence...We are totally responsible for our actions, for what we become." Though our parents raise us to hold certain values,when we are older we have the freedom to choose whether or not we keep those values. As long as we make sure we take responsibility as to how we use our freedom, I think no one can really say what is moral or not.