Born Free: Is it your life story?

Born free, as free as the wind blows

As free as the grass grows 

Born free to follow your heart 

So goes the lyrics of the song Born Free, theme song from the movie of the same title in the sixties.

The world still astounds you 

Each time you look at a star 

Live free, and beauty surrounds you 

Born Free is a true-to-life story about Elsa, an orphaned lioness cub, which game warden George Adamson took from the wilderness of Kenya to be raised by him and wife Joy at their home as a couple would rear a child.

Stay free, where no walls divide you 

You're free as a roaring tide 

So there's no need to hide

But time came for the couple to leave Kenya and the government ordered them to turn over Elsa to a zoo. Joy, however, declined to buy the idea as Elsa would never be happy being a caged captive. She wanted to set her free into the wilds. But how could she survive since she became a domesticated pet, untrained to hunt, to kill, and to be wild?

Born free, and life is worth living 

But only worth living 

Cause you're born free 

They trained Elsa to live as she should be. And they succeeded. She eventually lived in the wilderness, had a mate, and raised cubs of her own the way God willed her to live [at least, in this earth-life] -- "born to hunt, born to kill" -- and yet retained "all her affection" for the Adamsons "who nurtured her for so long." 

The song -- the movie -- our life story.