The Vitals

Daily writing prompt
What are three objects you couldn’t live without?

Aside from the obvious essentials to maintain life and health, I have learned to survive without an attachment to anything. I have lost everything I own so many times that I now do my best to not rely on anything that could do my mental health harm by not having it with me.

Five years ago I allowed myself to break that rule and formed an attachment to a fully customized motorcycle that I felt like represented my life’s effort -just to have it violently taken away 2 years later along with the career that financed it.

Seeing pictures of it on the ground like a pile of trash in the junkyard was more psychologically damaging than I ever imagined it could be. I vowed to never form that kind of attachment again.

I now see materialistic objects as anchors. They add stress, fear and anxiety to a world that already has enough to it.

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