Simona,

Remember this quote: “When you start giving too much importance to someone in your life you tend to lose your value in their life.”

We go through life attaching to things, wanting them to last forever. But they don’t last, and this makes us sad. Attachment in this sense might be defined as any MENTAL HABIT that perpetuates the illusion of a permanent, separate self.

Zen master Thich Nhat Hanh once wrote: “We have to nourish our insight into impermanence every day. If we do, we will live more deeply, suffer less, and enjoy life much more. Living deeply, we will touch the foundation of reality, nirvana, the world of no-birth and no-death. Touching impermanence deeply, we touch the world beyond permanence and impermanence. We touch the ground of being and see that which we have called being and nonbeing are just notions. Nothing is ever lost. Nothing is ever gained.”

The basic premises of Buddhism are NON-ATTACHMENT which is used in Buddhist philosophy:

1. Life is “Suffering.”

2. Reasons for Our Suffering.

3. It Is Possible to End the Suffering.

4. The Path to Ending the Suffering.

Hope this help, Simona.