You learn to dance without worrying if you're making a fool of yourself, or wearing the right outfit, or if you smell like an animal. Your parents become people, no different than other people, with no special significance in your life except as acquaintances. Freedom means freedom from a pre-defined relationship in romance or marriage. No political party. No special friends, because every good person deserves your friendship, and no one owns you purely on the basis of proximity or a chance encounter when you were 17 years old.
Freedom is a trial by fire, without religion or business cards.
It is worth doing, because humanity is capable of more than utilitarian pleasure, more than pragmatic corporate whoring, more than toys and chocolate cake to disguise your emptiness and blot out the possibility of your personal character. This is not a sermon. There is no God. If you let others determine the course of your life, you have no life of your own. If you are unfamiliar with this One World buzzword, it refers to apparently real constraints on exponential increase of world population, industrial output, energy consumption, and pollution.