The Art of Detachment: Learning to Let Go

Practicing detachment is part of life.

I’m not trying to say that success and happiness are bad things to be chasing, it’s just that I came to a realise : chasing something too hard can lead to a lot of expectations and attachment to the outcome of a situation, which in itself can lead to suffering.

What will they say?

What will they decide?

We all know by now that an outcome in any given situation is unpredictable. There are too many factors to know exactly what might happen.

It may turn out the way we want, or it may not, but there’s no way to know which way it’ll go.

Letting go of the outcome is a practice to work on every day.

With our heart wrapped up in it, we become like sailors hoping for the blessed sight of land after a long voyage, anxiously waiting for that first sight of the green shores of our homeland, the place where we belong.