Individual freedom versus life as an operating mode in "Bye Bye Blues"

"How else can one operate?"
"Operate what?"
"Life, one's life."
"Like a machine, you mean, as one operates a machine, a car? Perhaps that's the trouble: We don't live any more [...]. Instead we operate our lives."

"We're free people, independent. We go our own way. How can we mourn each other if we're free? How can we be free if we'd mourn one another?"

These lines from "Bye Bye Blues" very neatly sum one of the basic issues of the play. What is life for us? How do we want to live? Do we want a well-ordered, well-structured life, life like a computer programmes, with everything in its place, no surprises, everything always the same? Or do we want absolute freedom and independence, do whatever we like, whatever we want? Or do we want to have both things, on the one hand absolute freedom of decision, freedom of personal relationships, on the other hand a well-ordered life with a nice house or flat with designer furniture, rich and healthy food, financial safety, fixed relationships. And how could we combine both? How could we have both without giving up one of those options? "Bye Bye Blues" raises - among others - these questions, but does not try to give an answer. The characters in the play have to find their own answers and solutions, as we do. Are we free to choose? And moreover: Do we want to choose?