Detachment
- Mariane Bartlett
- Jan 22, 2017
- 2 min read

If you detach from everything that holds you back, you fly!! It's a scientific fact!! It's the law of gravity!
To stop identifying to things, people, places, that is the definition of true freedom. And I think freedom is underrated in the society we live in. We sacrifice our freedom for such mundane things as objects, situations or people never worth while. We attach by fear. We attach because we don’t trust that life will provide. We hold on as a safety, not knowing that is the very thing that puts the walls up imprisoning our own Souls into the fatal trap of comfort and security. (For full article -->)
Comfort is comfort. It is comfortable, no less, no more. It isn’t joy, happiness, evolution, growth, nor even peace of mind. It’s comfortable, and it’s fatal in the sense that it’s good enough to keep us tied to where we are. Contentment is another killer. Being content, but not fulfilled or happy, is deadly! It’s where our freedom gets sabotaged, it’s where our evolution stops and we stagnate. We can experience this at age 18 or 75, and neither one or the other is better. There is no age to stop growing and evolving into better versions of ourselves. There is no end to our expansion without which we slowly die.
Pain can sometimes be necessary to snap us out of contentment and make us move! That’s my case anyways. Without pain I just stay there. I go ‘'Okay, I’ve had enough for now, let’s stay here for a while’'. Which there isn’t anything wrong with per se, but I tend to stay stuck there. Like a death trap in a mushy fluffy bed full of pillows you get sucked into!.

I then have a hard time picking up the courage to get back up and continue on the journey of exploration and growth. To continue making mistakes, falling, getting back up, being constantly confronted to my fears but evolving at a rate where I get closer and closer to who I really am, and who I want to become as a woman!
In comfort and attachment, I start losing sight of my true nature and desires, my vision gets distorted, I can’t see the value and importance of my personal development anymore. Being ‘alright’ or content with how things are (despite my underlying screaming unfulfillment) becomes more attractive than the more challenging path of evolution. It makes me underestimate the immense joy that comes with pursuing what you truly love, and becoming who you are designed to be!

So no more playing it small or making excuses to stay under the radar. It’s safe, but safe doesn’t cut it anymore. Safe never brought any dreams to reality, never fulfilled anyone nor gave the true experience of being alive. I make it my personal oath to keep moving no matter what. And remember that by removing safety, taking risks and choosing growth over stagnation, I put myself in disposition to create the life of my dreams on my own terms, not at the mercy of external circumstances!
Love,
M.
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