12-4-15...3:18PM
Hello reader,
Welcome to my third topic of personal choice,
And the question of the hour?
Why do we get attached? To events, places, and people?
This question you may already believe you know the answer to, and likely you are right. Mostly all of us have at one point or another been attached to something or someone. We are attached to our parents usually, they are the first humans we meet and they meet our basic physiological needs as we begin our lives. Aside from parents and immediate family, we tend to form attachments with other we come in contact with - friendships are formed and eventually relationships, where we invest our emotions in another human being and share life experiences with. However not all human bonds last forever, and we are at points forced to let go of those we cared so dearly about, whether their departure be in death or by decision. We are human, and by that I mean we live to feel, and find we feel the most when with another. This of course can be countered with the idea that your relationship with God is forever, and we can feel for him primarily, which you can, but our human attachments are oftentimes more easily tangible and immediate. We also feel attachment to places in our lives, often due to some event of personal importance that occurred there. I for one like many am attached to my home in Berlin, Maryland. The pine trees swinging in the wind, the cool salty air brought by the nearby coastal bay, my family and high school friends, my room and my own bed. All things physically present in this world there, I love and miss. We are human, born to live and feel and pass on the torch of life.
-Dylan Bradford
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