The Power of Detachment

Do you want to know something that no one never has confessed to you?

You are trapped. Yes, you! As long as you live your life from a cage mindset. You are trapped in a jail that you yourself built, brick by brick with every decision made thinking about what others might say. With every action that you stopped doing for fear of failing and with every fake smile that hid your true desire to scream: ENOUGH is ENOUGH!

Do you feel that oppression in your chest? It's not anxiety. It's not stress. It's the unbearable wheight of a life lived for others. A life designed to please spectators who don't even pay admission to see your act. The cruelest thing is that nobody asked you to make that sacrifice. Nobody asked you to give up your freedom, your essence and authenticity but you did it voluntarily. you chained yourself to others expectations and momentary approval.

Now that you look inside, what remains of you? What part is authentically yours? What part was shaped by fear and insecurity or by the sick need to fit in? You grow up believeing that control is the key. You have been sold the illusion that if you manage every aspect of your life, everything would turn up well. Everything would be perfect.

Do you want to know the truth? Well, absolute control is a lie. A lie designed to keep you busy, distracted and disconnected from what really matters. The more you obsess over having control, the more you slide towards anxiety, towards silent desperation, towards a life that you never finish living because you are always busy preparing for something that never arrives.

Have you ever wondered why you feel that inexplicable void despite apparently having it all?

It's because what you have, isn't really yours. Your success, your relationships, even your thoughts.

They're contaminated by the constant worry about how they would be perceived by others.

The more you seek external validation, the further you drift from your center and from that true essence that you once knew to recognize but now barely remember. Michelle de Montaigne, from his silent tower in the 16th century saw clearly what today you don't want to accept, that detachment is not indifference but the only path toward true freedom.

Michelle understood that we live trapped not by external circunstances but by the sick attempt to CONTROL the UNCONTROLLABLE. By the obsession to please, to fit in, to avoid criticism at all costs. But what if I tell you that the detachment you fear is precisely the key that opens the door to your freedom?

What would happen if for a moment you dared to LET GO of that rope you hold so tight? That rope you belive saves you but in reality is slowly suffocating you. Because here's the paradox. The more you try to control, the less control you actually have...The more you seek to please, the less authentic you are. And the more you resist change, the stronger it hits you when it inevitably comes.

It's essential to understand that the world does not function under your control and it never will. Accepting this is not weakness, it is wisdom. Life in its chaos and unpredictability demands something very simple but terrifying as you have to let go. Let go of the need of approval. Let go of your fear of failing. Let go of that false identity you created to protect yourself from others judgment.

Imagine for a second what would happen if you stopped worrying so much about others opinions. Who would you be without that constant fear? What would you do if you knew nobody would ever judge you? That person you see in your mind right now, that version of yourself who lives without mental chains is who YOU REALLY ARE.

There is something darker and deeper behind the unconfortable reality. And it's the fear of having to

LET GO of control because deep down you don't know who you are without those chains, do you?

You are afraid to discover that your identity has been so deluded, so mixed with the external that upon LETTING GO of all that, maybe nothing will remain.

But here's the liberating and brutal truth that Montaigne whispered from his tower centuries ago:

By LETTING GO of what you are not, for the first time, you can clearly see what you are.

The freedom you seek is just on the other side of what now paralyses you. It's not in a self-help book or its any mystical secret.. It's here in this precise moment waiting for you to have enough courage to face your life and say:

"I no longer need anyone's approval. I no longer need to control the unpredictable. I no longer need to pretend to be who I am not" Now tell me? Are you ready to let go? Or will you continue clinging to control, knowing that each day that passes takes you further from your true essence?

This is just the begining of a journey that you may not want to make, but desperately need.

I welcome you to the Philosophy of Detachment. Welcome to pursuit an inner freedom that will change absolutely everything you thought you knew about yourself.

The decision is only in your mind...

Sanah Lahsen x