Choice vs Free Will

Purpose (what people refer to mostly as destiny) is from within, something we choose and have chosen to come here and fulfill (even before we came), not something that befalls us against our will. The essential Q is what is (really) free will? No one will stop you from 'choosing' any path (for instance one different to your true purpose). But technically speaking that is not free will. So choice is not yet free will. I can choose something but it is not yet free will. The core is if it comes from within or without (meaning the prompt). we can be manipulated into choosing something or a path. The 'idea' of true purpose would be connected to real free will meaning unconditioned. Coming truly from within and thus from ourselves and not from without/others. Only a real individual can exersize free will (technically speaking). The word destiny is a tricky one here for it is linked to predestination and fate and can be construed as something happening beyond ones choice. true purpose is quite the opposite.