The Perils of Attachment

I think it's a fundamental human responsibility to at least at some point have meaning. I get the fact that fear is triggered by desire. But where there's desire there must be fear. What prevents us from detaching from things? Well it isn't about detaching. It is about learning about the perils of attachment on a very very personal level. Once someone becomes so overwhelmed and indescribably stricken by something to where they can't take it anymore then the possibility of going a different way arises.