Attachment

Attachment can be dangerous. You think I am kidding? Look around. The world is full of stressed out people moaning over the loss of something they had attachment too. People have attachments to cars, houses, land, shoes, hair, clothes, earrings, laptops, and anything else you can imagine. People cry over a cavity in a tooth, their hair thinning, bubble gum in the hair and it needs to be cute out, or worse they cry over a bad hair cut like it is the end of the world. You have the people that are so attached to their home they are willing to die in it when a hurricane is barreling down on them. People attached to their cars more than their kids. People wailing about a lost cell phone or a missing pair of boots. These are all attachments to material things and it only brings stress. Yes, your phone does bring happiness for a fleeting moment, so does your nice pearly whites, and your blue suede shoes but at some point the material will wear down or it will be lost and if you have attachment you will suffer greatly. 

We all have attachments. Baseball cards, our bodies, our children, our spouses, etc...

We all have something we will weep for and suffer over because we got attached. Some people go nuts with attachment and become hoarders. Can't let anything go and when something does go they are extremely distraught even if it was the toothpick that a dead celebrity picked his teeth with after a meal. 

Nothing is here forever. Everything changes, like it or not, everything will die, get lost, or wear down and fall apart. EVERYTHING! Ideas change, styles change, your skin changes, your hair changes, your body changes, your eyesight, your attitude, your friends, your underwear, your (fill in the blank) will change. Family will get hurt, die, have heartbreak, lose their jobs, have kids, move away, and feud. 

Your friends will do the same. You might have to move from your house, might lose your own job, someone close might tell you to take a flying leap, someone else might slip pop on your laptop. Your kids might move back home, your folks might move in with you, your hair might fall out and your teeth become crowded. 

The thing to remember, and this is very important so listen up, the thing to remember is this; KNOW LIFE WILL CHANGE. Just KNOWING is powerful medicine. If you do that you are already ahead of the game. Next you need to ACCEPT. This is key. If you KNOW and ACCEPT then you will ride out most storms when others will falter and drown. 

If you can keep your attachments to a minimum. Accept that this might not be your soul mate, accept that your friends might change, accept that you might move, accept that your belongings might break, get lost, and or fall out of fashion. If you accept this and know life will change then you will not suffer so greatly as those that whimper with every gray hair, every new line around the eyes, and despair over some thinning hair or bumpy toes. The more you suffer and lament what you cannot control the more stress you cause your body and cause more of those issues you dislike so much.

The most important piece is to LET GO! Seriously, LET GO! Go ahead cut your hair, don't hide your wrinkles makeup (it actually makes them look worse but everybody is too nice to tell you that), wear sandals with those bumpy toes, take off that hat and show your balding head, go ahead and wear your out of fashion clothes, laugh when the cell phone falls into the poopy toilet (you have a story now), talk about the one that got away and how life is better because they did. Just LET GO! 

Life is short and it changes fast. You either have to be up for the ride or not. I have decided I am up for the ride. I am willing to LET GO of my ATTACHMENTS and KNOW that life will change and I ACCEPT it. I may not like it but I accept and I am willing to go forth and enjoy life. 

Laugh, giggle, and be silly. Don't let bullshit that doesn't matter get to you. *wink!