Detachment

I once read very good article on detachment somewhere, which said that everything in this world comes with an expiry date. Every materialistic or non materialistic, tangilble or intangible things come with expiry date. You relationship with a things, people all are based on your karma. The moment that period ends even if you keep those valuable things in your the most proctected locker they will leave you, break or get destroyed.

I kept on thinking on this theory and realized that it was true. We all try are level best to preserve our most valuable belongings. We buy lockers to keep our gold safe, we pray for long lives of our dearones and we keep ou costly articles with utter care. But when the end comes it do comes nothing can stop all those things from destroying. Observing and by mediditating on all such incidences, I realised that we all just waste so much of our time in trying to keep relationship going, accumalating wealth, building territories only to lose them in one go. Death do us apart from all those things in just one second.

Yet we make ourselves believe this will stay with me even after my death. We cheat people, we cheat ourselves by believing that I will be there forever but the fact is not one remains there forever.

I have started practicing theory of detachment. All the things that happening around me breaks my hear, make me happy, makes me feel powerful but only for the moment. Because I continously feed myself "THIS TOO SHALL PASS". Now things don't hurt me that much because my expectation from others is reducing. I just see people coming in my life as a cold breeze or hot breeze which will not be there forever they will pass.

Some may feel I am being escapist. Maybe you are right but rather than mourning, brooding over bad influence and behaviour of others, if start practicing detachment you will remain happy in your own world, where people of all type come, stay for second, play their character and just move ahead.