In an attachment it would surely kill the thing off altogether. One long continuous being-together, even in a love affair, might make the thing wilt. It is even pleasant to part, because this simply means preparing the way for the next meeting. Or to watch Italian youth going through the gyrations of the latest dance craze in some inexpensive indigenous night-place-while you, who come from the country where the dance originated, only get up to do a sedate fox trot. Same time, same table, same sidewalk cafe. And will be waiting there again tomorrow afternoon. To put your shopping packages down on a little wire-backed chair at a little table at a sidewalk cafe, and sit down and have a vermouth with someone who has been waiting there for you. It is pleasant to meet, it is pleasant to be together. While it is still going on, little thought is given to it, because little thought needs to be. In other words, its presence only becomes known in its absence. As a rule it only becomes noticeable when it is interrupted in some way, or broken off by circumstances. As a rule the two involved are not even aware of it at first. It never reaches the heights, and it never reaches the depths.Īs a rule it comes on subtly. No jealousy, no quarrels, no greed to possess, no fear of losing possession, no hatred (which is very much a part of love), no surge of passion and no hangover afterward. It has all the good points of love, and none of its drawbacks.
What is an attachment? It is the most difficult of all the human interrelationships to explain, because it is the vaguest, the most impalpable.
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