To be free one needs constant and unrelenting vigilance over one's weaknesses. A vigilance which requires a moral energy most of us areincapable of manufacturing. We relax back into the moulds of habit. They are secure, they bind us and keep us contained at the expense offreedom. To break the moulds, to be heedless of the seductions of security is an impossible struggle, but one of the few that count. To befree is to learn, to test yourself constantly, to gamble.