Attachment. This word is merely noticeable in the maze of words in the world, but this is the only word that keeps life going. The bond a soul shares with another, be it good or bad, is attachment. The mere look in the eye of a stranger is attachment. Also, just dream, with unknown people controlling your nights, is attachment.

As we get used to the world and its fundamentals, the process involves us getting attached to humans around us. These attachments are tragic. Meaning you don’t know where this relationship is going to take you. You are just walking on a never-ending road, uncertain if there is a dead end. The walk with a stranger on an unfamiliar street brings many moments that always stay with us. This strengthens the bond between the two people, and they are unfamiliar no more.

When two people are meant to be, the relation is not just made with one thread named love, but with all the similarities they share, and in the little things, they make their own. This isn’t wrong. The attachment becomes strong. But, deceiving. The more we get attached, we start recognizing each other’s flaws. The critical questions that arise act as knives against the delicate threads of the attachment that have been woven with an individual’s investment.

There’s another fault in having attachments. The more people you get attached to and make a fresh start with, the old commitments of the relationships become loose and naive. That’s when envy, doubts, and misunderstandings come into the picture. It is not only about lovers, but also about attachments we share with our parents, our friends, and ourselves that become supportless. The helplessness, and the feeling of being alone while experiencing the final breaking of the once strong attachment, now loose, gives us a reason to find new people. So we can spend time with them, walk on the same road, with another person, slowly forgetting about what the previous relationship ended like, and becoming unfamiliar with the road of life again, even though we’ve been through it all many times.

You and I know this truth because we’ve walked through that deceiving path and fell for the bribe to get just one more person, hoping that they will finally understand us and not leave loose ends that are destined to break in the future. What we don’t know is the solution to the end of the circle. That’s not possible. But instead of diverting to one side of the ring, we can become the middle.

The middle, where numerous attachments are welcome, and none of the past are left hanging. This means having a necessary distance with people and a fixed limit to weaving the number of attachment threads. This calculated balance is what can keep one’s life intact and away from trespassing on the highway of heartache all over again.

It’s not easy, but it can make the world a lot happier if practiced and advised to all the people walking through that unknown road.

Thank you.