'I would choose to stay with Geordi'
Hugh, nooooooo, you can't just say things like that and then sacrifice yourself. Your first real act of independence is still to do what is best for the collective group. It is your choice and it isn't even the choice you want but it is the one you need to make.
Coming from a group where you were forced to be a mindless drone, and now you can use the word I instead of we. We finally hear your voice, yours alone, no echoing or overlay of others, and it is to declare the sacrifice of the self you had gained only so recently.
The enterprise had been ready to treat you like the borg had as a tool for the use of the group, but you showed them. You took every gentle hand they dared reached out and pulled yourself out of tar to be an individual only to jump back in to keep the torrent back.