So why are we attached?

I am attached to my country because through identification with it I become somebody. I identify myself with my work, and the work becomes important. I am my family, my property; I am attached to them.

The object of attachment offers me the means of escape from my own emptiness… The mind, unwilling to be what it is, fearful of what it is, seeks these various escapes; and the way of escape is thought.

— Jiddu Krishnamurti, Commentaries On Living Series 2