Detachment

I have always taken refuge in the concept of detachment.
Before you assume I am indifferent, insensitive and isolated let me explain.

For me it represents freedom from addictions to things like feelings, control, the insecurity of loss.

Detachment does not demand lack of interest or emotion.

Detachment creates stability by allowing insecurity. Security is an illusion, and with that illusion there is a greater possibility that you will lose what you are attached to.

There are many types of addiction. Substance abuse seems to be the one most talked about, but what about addiction to power and control, addiction to being loved and accepted, or addiction to safety and comfort?

I have had an odd life of absurdly coincidental circumstances. It seems that no matter how much control I try to exert over my life, it still continues on the same course.

It is a difficult path, but it is the direction I chose for myself when I started out as a higher being, and formulated the plan before I came into this human form.

This being the case, I relinquish control. Not completely, mind you. The times when life is not going my way and I feel I have to do something to change the situation, I have to remind myself to detach.