Question about detachment

[Timbothefiveth]

Is wanting to succeed (relatively) in something non-important, such as a hobby, attachment, and thus sinful? Or when you’re practicing or at a match, would trying to do the best you can also fall under that title?

Thanks.

 

[Bookcat]

Is wanting to succeed (relatively) in something non-important, such as a hobby, attachment, and thus sinful? Or when you’re practicing or at a match, would trying to do the best you can also fall under that title?

Thanks.

Both can be reasonable and good…

If you decide to do that hobby instead of going to Sunday Mass…now that is a gravely disordered attachment

vatican.va/archive/catechism/p3s2c2a0.htm

 

[Bookcat]

frjacquesphilippe.com/themes/detachment.html

 

[daeve]

I don’t think there’s anything wrong with wanting to do well at something. We need to do well in school, and in carrying out our responsibilities like taking care of our families and our jobs. It’s when winning the game or acquiring the most prizes or anything other than God becomes the primary focus of your life that you get in trouble.

I read the first page on the site above, and I think when a relationship was taken away from me, like my husband leaving me for another woman, I made myself a little drama. But I got over it.