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Detachment or Letting Go

Fidal (Grace), 4 Mashiyyat (Will) 177 B.E. - Tuesday, September 29, 2020

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DAY 2249: In an interview, Norwegian author Karl Ove Knausgaard, who wrote the six-volume autobiographical novel My Struggle and many others, said, “I don’t really pay much attention to the world. I’m not very present. I’m detached from almost everything. I’m very occupied with myself and my own mind. I’m not in connection with the world—but in writing, I can be.”
What do you think? If writers are attached to writing, how can they write if they are detached from the world?

According to the Cambridge dictionary, one of the meanings of detached is "not emotionally involved in a situation"1. Just because a writer isn't emotionally attached to the things or events of this world, doesn't mean much. A writer that is emotionally detached from the events of the world probably has more emotional energy to put into their writing. Detachment from the world just means that they don't worry about losing material things. Nor are they worried about how much money their books bring in, because they put their energy into creating plots, characters, etc.

Detachment is a means of letting go of what is unimportant to the development of the individual' soul and talent, while focusing on what will develop the person's soul and talent. Writing is one way of letting go of the disappointments and fears of the world of matter, and using those disappointment and fears in novels, short stories, or poems.

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1  https://dictionary.cambridge.org/dictionary/english/detached