Stuff Yoda says

Yoda once said "Train yourself to let go of everything you fear to lose" and "fear (of loss) is the path to the dark side. Fear leads to anger. Anger leads to hate. And hate leads to suffering" and "the dark side clouds everything, impossible to see, the future is". Basically, the little green old man was saying attachment is pure evil that complicates everything. And he's not the only one. Some half-wit wise-ass said "if you love some(thing)one, let them go. If they come back, they were yours to begin with. If they don't come back [get yourself a rowdy bunch of them muscle types and go beat the crap out of them].

Showing affection is a good thing, but once you get attached, the inevitable flaw in humanity rears its dashingly conniving head. "The heart of man is deceitful, and desperately wicked, who can know it?" says the good book. Trusting in humanity, the kind of trust that leads to some degree of dependence, is something that must be avoided unless inevitable (and if inevitable then its not a matter of trust, but rather lack of choice).

Love for personal gratification is a game, a game which once won loses its lustre and gives way to what Ghandi called "pleasure without conscience". I most certainly believe in love, but only in two shades - love born of sacrifice, and love born of convenience. The former is a choice, with little to do with emotion. The latter is emotion, bridled by reason, and almost always entails nothing more than reciprocal affection, not attachment, and if ever the latter, then born of habit subject always to adverse choice.

And nausea kept me company all 10 minutes I was writing this.

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