Are you happy wearing clothes that don’t give you pleasure? Do you feel joy when surrounded by piles of unread books that don’t touch your heart? Do you think that owning accessories you know you’ll never use will ever bring you happiness?

How you can more actively take advantage and appreciate the things that are in front of you while you still have them.

There is an ironic twist here: by undoing our attachment to external things and people, we can value them more. The word ‘attachment’ might be misleading: surely we must be attached to things to really value them? Surely we wouldn’t want to care less about our loved ones? Perhaps feeling less attached would undo some of the eventual misery of losin