We as human beings are not physically free of our appearance or external circumstances. "Am I free to become Barrack Obama right now? Am I free to become a woman? Am I free to close my eyes right now and find myself in the Bahamas when I reopen them?" asks David Banach. We might not be free to do any of these things but we do have endless internal capabilities. In our minds, we are allowed to do whatever we want. We are free to have our own opinion, we are free to believe and "we have the power to edit the frames which constitute our experience into the film that is to be our life".
The only person that impedes a you from being yourself is you. Nobody can tell us that we can not laugh or cry when we want to. Or that we can not act a certain way because it does not go along with our personality. We as human beings should not intend to be somebody else only because a person in our life makes us feel that way. Having a "mental TV screen" of oneself could be fake because that person might be trying to be somebody else just to fit in, but sometimes it can also be a good thing if it is for our freedom of happiness. If a person decides to change an aspect of himself in order to improve his personality rather than to fit in then it would not be considered trying to be somebody you are not. For example, somebody is different when he is around other people by being less social or less humorous, and then the person decides he should try to be as genuine as possible with everyone. Therefore he will be an absolute individual and internally free from all outside influences.
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