My Basic Thought On Free Will

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I am not very knowledgable about free will, but as I think about it I remember something interesting from the novel "The Maltese Falcon" by Dashiell Hammett...In that novel the character being sought by the hero tells a story about how he abandoned his family and whole life after a beam falls off a building and almost kills him...The weird thing was that after having this consciousness altering experience he remarried a woman similar to his first wife and took up a career and life similar to the one he originally had...in other words he jumped tracks then ended up in a very similar groove to the one he started from...makes you think...do we run from one thing to run back to what we just came from...how does free will fit into that? Personally I get bored with the same routine so I doubt if I ever jumped tracks I would end up back in the same place, but you gotta wonder...