Ditch the attachment: Detach and upgrade to love.Ditch the attachment: Detach and upgrade to love. Attachment is a perversion, a gruesome burden, an unholy cocktail of selfishness, jealousy, anxiety and fear which not just corrupts, but corrupts absolutely.
Attachment reflects our insecurity, loneliness, confusion, sense of isolation, and search for identity. It is an attempt to give a pleasant experience permanence, even immortality.
Attachment is a state of delusion because it tries to create meaning and permanence out of imaginary things – a completely wasteful exercise that can never bear any fruit.
Attachment is much like a spider’s web that you don’t want to be caught in. If you are like a fly that can’t or won’t detach from it, you, too, will slowly atrophy in the web of attachment.
Attachment is an acknowledgement of our failure to love. Justifying attachment as love, which most people unabashedly do, is the most extreme form of corruption known to mankind. And those who do this, short change themselves as well as those around them.
What is necessary, meaningful and healthy, is change. Anything stagnant rots. Attachment is stagnant. It is about possessiveness, a need for physical and psychological security by clinging to meaningless people, things and ideas. Attachment does not allow growth or progress. A prerequisite to the retention of attachment is that both parties: the person who is attached and the object of their attachment must stay exactly the same. There is simply no room for natural evolution.
The notion of country, religion, race, family, these are all security blankets that lend us a sense of identity, conviction, sense of connection, purpose and belonging. Without these we feel as if we have lost our connection to the world. Yet these ‘attachments’ are responsible for all the conflicts in the world. My country, my God, my worship, my ideas, versus yours!
