It is so hard…
To let someone/something be, to release negative thoughts, your past, your failures. To let go and stop dwelling on it, stop talking about it once and for all, to avoid pressing too much, to desire something without the excess of want. Simply to accept something the way it is. It is so hard.
It is so difficult to accept unpleasant events, harm, fraud, lies, betrayal, or improper behaviour – even though these most painful situations are the best teachers.
It is so hard to stop dwelling on your past mistakes, wrong decisions or a choice that had negative consequences – despite the fact that everyone has the right to err and we all act according to our best knowledge and understanding at a given moment.
It is so tough to ignore criticism, negative judgment, especially such that is false and hurtful. But after all, wolves don’t care what sheep have to say.
It is so hard to let someone go free the moment we care about him or her. But isn’t love predominantly about freedom and wishing the person we love to be happy?
It is so difficult to give up on a project, business or collaboration without a sense of failure. But then again, there is no such thing as a failure – it is simply ‘life trying to move us in another direction’ (Oprah Winfrey)
It is so hard for us to liberate ourselves from the thought that we’re still not sufficiently good, competent, independent or perfect to be able to reach out for what we deserve (a job position, respect, freedom, love) – even though as women, we are able to achieve anything.
It is so hard…
Letting go is not about denial, abandonment or forgetting. It is about accepting what is and accepting it the way it is. It’s the internal reconciliation in order to move on and not look back. Because you’ll never see your future if you keep looking back.