Get Attached
The world’s teaching you to detach. I’ll advise the reverse. Get attached.
Find people and projects and ideas that you can devote yourselves to. So deeply that the thought of their absence troubles you. That until you don’t have them, the desire to get them keeps moving you. So intensely that you can their mere mention charges your being with the restlessness of getting to them.
Get so deeply committed that all your thoughts and actions align with them. That anything that sways you in a different direction finds its way out of your life. That situations and circumstances become inferior to your will of attaining them. That all your emotions find alignment around them, that all your expressions find mentions of them.
Get so deeply attached that your allegiance to them stumbles all the doubts they might have about your commitment. Give them reasons to be as attached as you are. See who sticks. See who replicates the same level of attachment. See who’s not afraid of being too emotional for you. And attach even more deeply to them.
For most people, the issue is not of detachment, but of attaching intensely, to the right ideas and projects and people. Don't solve nonexistent problems. Attach so vehemently that the thoughts of detachment never occur to you. And once you do, learn to handle it.
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