My Insights On “Being Attached To An Outcome”

During casual conversations with my children when I say “ Just let go of the need to be attached to your desired Outcome” I would get this response. “It is easy for you to say but tough to practice.” OR “ You have not been in the situation that I am in etc etc.” I am sure you can relate to such conversations and you too have your insights.

Let me help you with an analogy. I would like you to visualize your right hand attached to your left hand. You are the right hand and your goal/what you want/desired Outcome is your left hand. How would you feel if you had done everything with both hands attached. Would you feel like a slave or free person? Would it be annoying or fun to carry on the rest of the day's activities?

Now, imagine you pull and separate the hands. How do you feel? Painful right. Maybe even sad for not being together anymore. You are unable to carry on the rest of the activities even after separation. Well, both the times when the hands were attached and when the hands were separated, you were neither happy nor able to carry on your activities.

Now imagine you are your right hand and your left hand is the desired Outcome. Your hands are not attached. Both hands are free. In other words you and your Outcome are detached from each other right from the beginning. Your right hand does it’s job independent of the left-hand. At times both work together
In other words you are not attached to your Outcome, but keep an eye on the desired Outcome, feel great and inspired and you…