Service

Some people believe that if you are a servant then you are not free, as in free to do what you want.  I don't know that "doing what you want" makes you free.  What if you are addicted to something like work, a relationship, a substance, food?  You are not free if you have lost the power of choice.  I think that you are free when you serve.  Free of what?  Free of the self-centered ego that imprisons many of us. Recovery programs and religion both say that you should be of service.  You are supposed to help the still struggling victim of their addiction, and that takes your time and energy.   But being of service, you help to set yourself free from the stuff that used to imprison you in your addiction.  Jesus said that you are the greatest when you are a servant.  Buddhism has the Boddisatva, the adept, who holds back from entering Nirvana so as to bring the Darma to other sentient beings, beginners.  Freedom is service.  Be set free.  Help someone.  And don't worry about the results.  That is not your job.