Ha! How do you know we didn't dream you up, just to amuse ourselves? You wouldn't have any way of knowing, because we have endowed you with a fairly basic form of artificial intelligence and self-awareness, just a created character in a computer game. You appear to have free will...in fact you DO have free will within the limited parameters OF your character and of the game, because when we wrote you into the program called "Life" we gave you free will within those parameters.

You are allowed fully to do anything you decide to, within the range of your programmed capabilities.

And that, my friend is how life works! For everyone. It's just like a gigantic computer game simulation where all the characters get to explore the possibilities of the basic role they've been given...and they can even re-write the role as they go along by using their free will creatively.

That's what everyone does, in one way or another. They ARE fully in charge of their own destiny, but they have to deal with certain limitations, that's all. Generally they behave in rather predictable patterns. Occasionally you get one who really KNOWS how to make use of his or her free will, and then some profound things can happen.