The question answers itself – if everyone must reach the ultimate goal, my role is to reach the ultimate goal. But, perhaps, I can accelerate this, thereby helping others along the way.
What a difficult question. Perhaps, by virtue of the Creator being the all, the analogy would be that we are within the Creator’s dream and the Creator’s view is through the perspective of every thing, atom, person, animal, energy etc. I think the difficulty here is that we do not have the words or experiences to describe this. But suffice to say, it may be like a lucid dream.
To me, freedom is the choice to either let the outer world move you along in its current, or to build on the desire for spirituality, which is being awakened from above.