Mental Slavery

"Emancipate yourselves from mental slavery; None but ourselves can free our minds" by Bob Marley- Redemption Song.
To me this little verse says so much. It means releasing yourself from so many attachments in the world that has replaced your mothers chord. Superficial attachments like conforming to social trends and fashion trends. Then you have attachments to places, things, and even people.

But all of these I think are in your own mind. You want to attach yourself, you need that comfort of saying this is yours and this defines me. You begin to tell yourself that this (item or thing) is what helps me say who I am, your turn your physical attachments of things into apendages like your arms and legs. I think you begin to feel like without them you dont know who you are and without a label or a description you begin to feel lost and disappointed. The disappointment then begins to be depression, so from there its just go downhill.

Buddhism has this teaching and I do agree with it, but as you can tell I also have a different theory and view to it. but they have years and decades of experience it and it looks like they have a solution. I've tried it myself and with some minor changes to my own personal fit, it works for me. It might work for you, but who knows. . .

But I think the worst attachment you can have is to a person. Things, items, or anything else are easy to be release from, but a person is harder because they walk and talk and even when they do nothing, you convince yourself there doing nothing for you (if that makes sense to you). That attachment to that person begins to be the drug you need to feel better, its the shot of happiness that helps you throughout the day. Then when you don't have it, you begin to go on a downward spiral.
But you can't blame the other person, I don't think they do it on purpose (most of the time), I think we attach ourselves to them. We develop a world with them that helps us cope through the denial of not actually being with them. We enclose ourselves in a mental slavery.

And how do you get out of it. . . . . I don't know

The Buddhist have a process and so far it sounds about right, only to certain people. Cause if there's anything I learn is that, we are all different and we all do different things.