ON LETTING GO
By Pat Burnette
By Pat Burnette
To LET GO does not mean to stop caring for others; it means I can’t do it for someone else.
To LET GO is not to cut myself off; it’s the realization I can’t control another, only myself.
To LET GO is not to enable, but to allow others to learn from natural consequences.
To LET GO is to admit I cannot control what another does, which means the outcome for that other person is not in my hands.
To LET GO is not to change or blame another; it’s to make the most of myself.
To LET GO does not mean you condone what the other person has done; it just means you can move past it
To LET GO is not to care for myself, but to care about my SELF.
To LET GO is not to fix other people, but to be supportive of them and their growing process.
To LET GO is not to judge, but to allow another to be a human being.
To LET GO is not to be in the middle of arranging all the outcomes, but to allow others to affect their own destinies.
To LET GO is not to be protective; it’s to permit another to face reality.
To LET GO is not to deny, but to accept.
To LET GO is not to nag, scold, or argue, but instead to search out my own shortcomings and correct them.
To LET GO is not to adjust everything to my desires, but to take each day as it comes and cherish myself in it.
To LET GO is not to criticize or regulate anybody, but to try to become what I dream I can be.
To LET GO is not to regret the past, but to grow and live today, thus moving towards the future.
To LET GO is to fear less and love more.
1 comment:
Great post - we can all learn something from this post. Letting Go is one of life's great lessons that some people never learn to master, and others learn it little by little, in degrees, as they get older and wiser. It can be a bitter-sweet lesson, as well.
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