Letting Go of Attachments

Remember, that the only thing permanent in this world is impermanence.

There is no object or body that goes beyond mortality. Sooner or later, the energy that binds them will dissipate and will be converted into another form. Even the feelings that you have, it has it’s own finite duration. However, today we are so preoccupied that we have already ignored this reality, that nothing can exist forever except for the energy that links us all.   Sooner or later, your car will break down and you just have to let go and perhaps, replace it with a new one. Someday, your loved one has to go and you can’t do anything about it.

Since we have ‘forgotten’ that everything has it’s own ‘life-span’ we tend to worry more and become afraid of losing what we have. You begin to be attached with these, and not willing to let go. Instead of enjoying what you have at this moment, you start to be anxious. Fear sets in and you begin to build walls to protect the things you think you value most. Your main focus becomes safeguarding what you have rather than enjoying them instead. Yet, no matter how high you build your ‘fence’, the ‘the angel of death’ will always find its way to take the ‘life’ of the one which you treasure most. And when that time comes, the loss torments you. Anguish, pain, grief, despair, you name it, they will no longer be strangers to you.

How then would we be able to fully enjoy something, if we are so afraid of losing it?

Letting go of all the attachments allows us  to experience what true happiness really is. There is no absolute happiness when you still worry. Yet, when you have already accepted the fact that someday what you have right now will have to go, and that there is no point of worrying of losing them, then you have now detached yourself from that object or entity. And from that moment of acceptance, you begin to completely enjoy all the things that you have. Thus, never fret about tomorrow for the past and the future are just merely illusions. What you have is only NOW. Immerse yourself in it. Relish it. And when the time comes when the one you have cherished most has to transcend, sorrow will no longer be in you for you have already enjoyed his/her/its presence. You have been prepared for that day to come since you have already accepted that nothing is permanent in this world. You have already learned to let go.

Namaste.