To be free does not simply mean to be untied or un-committed. It is not the “release from” something or disembeddedness which makes us free, but inclusion and embeddedness. The total lack of relationships causes anxiousness and worry. The Indo-European root fri, from which terms such as 'free', 'peace' or 'quietude' [Friede], and 'friend' are derived, means 'to love'. Thus, 'free' originally meant 'pertaining to friends or loved ones'. One feels free in relationships of love and friendship. It is not the absence of ties, but ties themselves which set us free. Freedom is a word which pertains to relations par excellence. Without hold there is no freedom.