In the words of wisepersoninmylife "You let go of the things you need to hold on to and hang on to the things you need to let go of....."Letting go of....
How about that illusion that I need to be 'in charge', 'running the show' and 'all knowing'. G'head--laugh if you must. I seem to have delusions of grandeur, STILL.
I'd like end results that I actually LIKE with a few things, dontchaknow.
How about that 'If I try harder, smarter, longer--it'll all work out how I'd like it."
NOT that I'm walking around saying that about every circumstance, every situation and every moment in time.
But there are a few items on the "I'd sure like to call the shots on THIS one" list.
Yeah, yeah......LET GO.
No, I don't get to decide for the boy, for the people I work with individually OR for the people who decide stupid things that I'd never decide, today.
No, I don't get to make decisions for my boss.
No, I don't get to snap my fingers and fix some lives that I'd like to.
No, I don't get to rewrite my responsibilities at the job, in the house and in this life.
LET GO!!!!!!
*sigh*
Hanging on to.....
Obviously, first on the list would be hanging on to the 'knowing' that G-d's large and in charge.
I can KNOW that--and still not seeming know that. The end result is exactly what I talk about under the 'letting go' category.
"Knowing and not doing is worse than not knowing."
Aughhh!!!! Thanks a whole LOT! :-P
Gratitude would be another good thing to hang on to.
Not that life's always 'fair' and 'just' and 'pretty'.
SO WHAT!?!
It's 'life'.
And I have one, today.
That, in and of itself, is cause for celebration no matter what else happens during the course of the day.
Patience.
PATIENCE!
Things don't happen in Mel's time. (refer back to first on the list of 'hanging on' to's....)
'Nuff said.
And compassion.
Ya know........like 'empathy' for other's?
I can let that one go on a regular basis because I seem to think responsiblities are paramount.
However, Mel's list of 'paramounts' and the rest of the world's list........probably ain't gonna match.
EASE UP, already!
Compassion.
You don't always know what's going on in the lives of the people around you--
And once again-- I'm back to the obvious.
Practice, practice, practice.
*sigh*
3 comments:
You are so right. Hanging on. Letting go. Practice, practice, practice.
I was always taught that practice. . .
. . .makes perfect
I now realise there are "perfectly" acceptable excpetions to this rule that apply to those (of us) that are fallible human beings
now if only someone had taught me that lesson!
(it's currently my life curve - thanks for the reminder!)
Your life is definitely cause for celebration. Hang on to that.
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