To Live in Harmony

Someone who went to a monastery to consult a monk was told his sufferings were due to his attachments. He found it puzzling. Wanting to work for his upkeeps and be independent as well as be useful to the society, he thought that would require some form of attachment. When someone gets attached to his loved ones; like a kid to the parents or an adult to a lover, I suppose life is all bliss especially when the love is reciprocated. Only on losing them or in the case of unrequited love, attachments would cause some form of sufferings. Perhaps in living life, we cannot be devoid of attachments. It probably is all right to be attached but when the time comes to detach, we just have to let go. Then, a probable solution to the problem of attachment is to adopt the right thought and execute the right action. Somewhere, I read the Noble Eightfold Path enables us to live in harmony.