We all search for happiness.

We all search for happiness. However sometimes we look for it and try to grasp it from everywhere but the place it is found.

We often look for happiness outside of ourselves. We create our lives and fill them full of pretty, expensive and sentimental things believing that they will add a layer of depth to our self-worth and in return, provide us with happiness.

Something that eludes many of us is that happiness does not depend on anything that is around us.

Regardless of who is around us, how much money we have, what car we drive or the value or beauty of our material possessions—none of these things will bring us true and lasting inner happiness.

Having attachments to people or material things pins us down emotionally and also physically.

The trouble with attachments is that they also come with a fear of loss.

Buddhism teaches that attachment is the root of all of our suffering.