Funny how something most of us learned very early in life, which seemed so simple at the time, can be of such value and challenge in our adult lives. The adage that "If you love something let it go, if it comes back to you, it was always yours, if not... it never was". Seems simple enough right?
Oddly, my lessons always come back to me out of some coincidence or another. The day I needed to hear that sometime's letting go is easier... I ran into a friend of mine, who was covered in bruises. She laughed at herself while she told me the story. She had been on a ropes course, clipped for safety and instructed, if you fall, let go!!! The system was designed to safely catch anyone who slipped from the course. Instead, she did what we all do - she fought to HOLD ON. She looked back and laughed and said "if I would have just trusted and let go, I would not have gotten so hurt". This struck me that day, as I looked back at many things that didn't go quite right and realized that the pain I had experienced was in many ways enhanced by my own efforts to fight to hold on...namely in relationships.
Here I sit today... knowing this with every ounce of my being, yet I still struggle at times with the idea of just letting go... when I do, it's freeing! Every coincidence in my life must serve as an example that things will naturally line themselves up when I stop trying to make everything happen myself :)
So if this is you, you're not alone...
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