Two
Getting out was never an option. Choosing which rooms you walk into, how many, and who you walk in with, is.
Every good thing that has ever happened to you happened in a room somebody built — a classroom, a congregation, a locker room, a marriage. The recovering addict surrenders to the meeting. The recruit surrenders to the drill sergeant.
The person who cuts every string doesn't become free. He becomes the heap. Not zero influence. Chosen influence. Plural. With slack in every line.