I do not understand the attachment to things. To me, it seems like things are tied with contingency; i.e: ‘if I hold on to this thing, then I may have the opportunity to do, or be, this other relative thing later.’ However, is it not the point of life, to actively do now what it is that you may, or may not, do tomorrow? For if it is not necessary for us not to be someday, why not be that which is necessary to be, right now?
Perhaps that is the great lie of our society today: e.g. acquisition all that you can now, and you will have time for wisdom later. No, the time for wisdom is now. Why end up at the end of life, with a whole lot of things, to which are attached many memories, of those many verbs in past tense: “Could’ve”, “should’ve”, “would’ve”, etc., only to sit there and wonder, “what could have been?”
That idea disturbs me, and perhaps that is precisely the point. The things we hide behind, seem to distract us from the bigger question posited here.
EAR