The ability of detachment

We detach ourselves from things and/or beeings to protect ourselves.


We detach ourselves from abusive people that normally are a part of our social environment, to walk away, we detach ourselves from situations which might harm our mind and/or body.

Humans detach themselves from a lot of things and situations because it is the easy way  to go.

Humans detach themselves from the human who is attacked by thugs, raped/beaten/mugged because they fear they might otherwise get attacked also.
Humans detach themselves from news about famine, war and illnesses in other countries or social groups.


Without the ability of detachment humans could not be aghast of the sight of abused children, animals and in turn also ignore the signs of the same happenings in their own neighbourhood.

People love their dog, but they detach themselves from the dog abused in animal testing or killed for the fake fur on their clothing or accessoires.

People love their children but detach themselves from the children elsewhere, be it the neighbourhood or another country, or they could not buy child labour products or do stuff that impacts children elsewhere negatively.


People may love their spouse, but the next moment detach themselves from said spouse  when they can gain satisfaction this way, be it that they steal the last piece of cake and eat it themselves or betray their spouse sexually with someone else.


This is also why people can call themselves animal lovers of the platonic kind and still will be responsible for the suffering and abuse of animals.

Even worse the kind of non platonic animal lovers ..or people who love children in this sick and twisted way from which they gain sexual satisfaction, blind to the suffering they inflict.


Detachment can be a useful skill, or people would get insane with the ammount of things that are wrong with the world.

Detachment can help us to view a problem and find a solution, but unfortunately all to often we abuse our ability of detachment to ignore a situation or a problem until we are in deep sh*t.


Abusers are perfectionists in this ability, this is why it is so hard to make them see the error of their ways.
They hold on strongly on  their detachment.

If one can detach themselves from the pain of someone who is raped and can concentrate on the pleasure of the act, giving up the detachment would mean to recognize the fear and pain caused, to feel guilty, ashamed, what not...

People dislike giving up their detachment because it helps them to enjoy life while ignoring the things that are going wrong, which they are causing to go wrong.

People dislike it when others take away their fun, why would they choose to take away their fun by themselves when there are not really pressing matters  that make it impossible to hold up detachment?


For example feeling detached, not caring about people beeing discriminated until it happens to yourself..when you are on the wrong side, detachment is a negative thing for yourself.


Detachment is not negative per se, it depends on how you  handle it.
It might help you keep yourself healthy and on track, beeing able to solve problems without beeing burdened and dragged down by your emotions.