Attachment and Detachment

       The two words attachment and detachment differs with the first two letters (at, de) but the meanings are pole apart. When we stick on with something or someone which is hard for us to leave then it is termed as attachment on the other hand when we consider things moderately it is called as detachment. Humans are naturally gifted with the emotions of attachment. When we are born we are too attached with our mother later with our father and with the members in our family. So the quality of attachment and love follows us naturally. When years pass by and we group up as an individual with our own traits we develop our knowledge and learning. Later on our desire towards all worldly pleasures start to develop like money, fame and material possessions. When love and desire for material possessions start to head-up and that is where we start to learn detachment but in an very wrong sense. We start to detach ourself from the people around us. We think that love and relationships makes us weak but the real truth is that the worldly objects and material possessions make our life complicated. In the desire of earning more and getting more we began to consider our root of emotions as unwanted ones.

       Knowledge should never overrule our emotions at any point in life because emotions are travelling with us from our birth but knowledge is the one which we have developed through learning. So be attached with your emotions like love, kindness, compassion and gratitude but be detached with the objects and things which you have gained later in your life.

       What to be attached and what to be detached should be balanced equally. When you detach yourself from your emotions and that is were life becames complicated because we get connected with the universe and the supreme being god with our emotion not with our knowledge. When emotions are cut off we get detached from the universe.

       There is a famous quote which says “If love is your weakness then you are the strongest person of this world”. So be an individual with love and kindness and think before detaching your emotions. As, the flower lotus detaches itself from water but not with the soil and the roots. Roots are always important for anything and humans are born out of  the roots of extreme love and it is safe to be attached with the roots.