Day 169 (A Hundred & Sixty-Nine) of 365 days
Anything that feels forced or harder than it should be or causes you pain and distress are not meant for you. Having this mentality or faith will help you overcome the reluctance that comes with deciding whether or not you should let go. Things that are meant for you have a way of flowing smoothly into your life. The more you fight for something that is not meant for you, the more it will fight you. You may get what you want in the end, but it may not last and you may not feel at ease with it. The beauty of things that are meant for you is that they just happen; against all odds. We are just programmed to complicate life sometimes.
Letting go is painful when you feel “stuck” and it can sometimes seem impossible to do, but the truth is if you reach this point, it means that you’ve been trying so hard to make this thing work in your favour, or reach your goal, and it sometimes feels like we’ve tried so hard or come a long way that if we let go now, it will feel like a waste of time given the time and effort we invested in it. But nothing is ever a waste of time, even if it feels like it is, we are here to make mistakes and learn lessons to grow as individuals, if we keep holding on to toxic situations or toxic people because we’ve already done too much or it’s too late to change things, we are only setting ourselves up for a miserable life. There is power in letting go, a power that brings more peace and serenity than being stuck in situations that make your heart a bit heavier every day.
People come and people go in our lives but what hurts the most than letting go of the one you love the most in your life, the one whom you once chose to never leave through thick and thin. People hurt us from time to time. Of course, that’s Life, No doubt about it, but HURT sometimes can leave wounds in our hearts where scars left never seem to fade away. There are some things that time does not seem to mend. Hard to accept but true. But here’s the funny part, No matter how or to what extent these people hurt you, yet you still love them. You still chose to be patient. One of the Laws of Nature is the ‘Limits of Tolerance’.
Hope is believing in what we cannot see, trusting in what we cannot feel, having faith in what we do not understand… and at the time of hurt we only see, and feel, and understand the hurt itself… we don’t comprehend the circumstances surrounding it… we cannot see the outcome… And so we have to find the strength inside of us that compels us to put one foot in front of the other and to leave the hurt where it belongs… in the past with whatever it was that caused it in the first place…
We have to learn how to let go of blame… blaming ourselves, blaming someone else, blaming God… blame, blame, blame… it happened – does blame change it? NO! So let it go!!! Letting go is finding forgiveness… and acceptance… it is not saying it was ok… but rather saying it happened… and I will carry on… and I will be better for it – eventually.
