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This question have come several times in my mind. Why am I here? I didn't choose to be here then why am I here? I am being told to do this do that, study, work, behave in a certain way, but when did I consent to this? I have lived so many years of my life but when was I truely choosing to live and could live like I want to? It seems like I don't have any free will.
Chandrani, look at the line itself, I didn't choose to be here then why am I here. The one asking that question is the same one who will now spend the rest of the post proving it never had a choice. Free will isn't missing, it's just been quietly redefined as whatever would have let this particular self avoid being told what to do. That's worth noticing before concluding there's no will at all. The chooser K. never finds in Kafka's story is also looking from inside the very structure it's questioning, that's exactly why no answer ever satisfies him. The one real choice that was always available to K, and to you, is whether to keep demanding the court explain itself or to turn and look at who's demanding. That question is worth sitting with longer than the one you asked.
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