Not that I believe such twaddle, but some years ago a noted "spiritualist" told me that in one of my previous lifetimes I was the the French philosopher J. J. Rousseau.
Who knew??
What was his/(my) famous quote... "Man is born free but everywhere he is in chains.”
Your question cannot adequately be answered, Brother Gandhi. Of course you're free, and most assuredly you're not.
Look... It all depends on what you mean by the term "free." Idealized freedom requires total self sufficiency; and to the extent that those of us in urban society have requirements for doctors, farmers, and other forms of labour that enable us to live our normal lives, none of can rightly thought to be free. We've made a Faustian bargain with civilization, and to the extent that we rely on its comforts and luxuries we are made prisoners of them.
And while that might sound terrible, I ask, in all sincerity, what's the alternative? I for one do not relish the idea of trekking off to some god forsaken corner of the globe to reclaim my total freedom and live on tree bark and rain water.
Modern society exists because of a division of labour that allows us to maximize our potential in ways our "more free" ancestors could never have dreamed possible. So, to the extent that we've surrendered a large degree of freedom, we've also gained a greater degree of freedom as well.
We live on a crowded planet, and the result is that is everyone did as he pleased, whenever he pleased, the whole thing would come crashing down around our ears. To maximize our "freedom from" we've necessarily surrendered a great deal of our "freedom to."
But even then, psychologically, spirtually, existentially, the idea of freedom is largely mythical. Consider that the only truly free person is the person who's totally insane. For the rest of us, constraints abound. The rest of us impose order on our lives by sets of values by which we regulate our lives.
Therefore (as I say these days)...
"In the ideal sense of the term we were never meant to be free, our measure of grace is in being able to choose which master we will serve."
As Bob Dylan put it so long ago, "You're gonna serve somebody, you're gonna serve somebody."
Great question. Have a star... And Merry Christmas...