Letting Go

Letting Go

Life is not about control or making things happen in the ways we think they should happen.  In fact, it's rather arrogant for us to be on this planet that's been here for so long and expect to be able to control life on it.  If we want to see changes, then our task is to set things in motion, not to micromanage and make them happen in the ways we think they should.  If we have something that is possessing us, such as alcohol or our television sets or our cell phones, then it could be time to let it go and move on with our lives.  If we're holding on to resentment and anger, we're simply raising our own stress levels and blood pressure, but we're not contributing anything positive to the situation--and it's time to let it go.

We have to decide if we're going to spend our time fighting life, or living life.  Are we contributing to life, or are we telling life what we think it should do and be?  Are we at peace when life shows us something we didn't expect, ready to deal with it on its own terms, or does such a thing knock us for a loop, making us fearful and upset?  Too many of our disappointments are caused by our own expectations, and until we can let go of those expectations, we can be sure that we're going to experience many more stressful, difficult moments in life, moments that we've caused ourselves.

There are things that we never want to let go of, people we never want to leave behind.
But keep in mind that letting go isn’t the end of the world; it’s the beginning of a new life.

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