Oftentimes letting go has nothing to do with weakness, and everything to do with strength. We let go and walk away not because we want the universe to realize our worth, but because we finally realize our own worth.
We can spend days, weeks, months, or even years sitting alone in the darkness, over-analysing a situation from the past, trying to put the pieces together, justifying what could have or should have happened. Or we can just leave the pieces on the floor behind us and walk outside into the sunlight to get some fresh air.
There are things we did not want to happen, but have to accept, things we don’t want to know, but have to learn, and people we can’t live without but have to let go. Some circumstances and people come into our lives just to strengthen us, so we can move on without them.
Imagine all the wondrous things our minds might embrace if it weren’t wrapped so tightly around your struggles. Always look at what you have, instead of what you have lost. Because it’s not what the world takes away from you that counts; it’s what you do with what is you have left.
There is only one way to happiness, and that is to cease worrying about things which are beyond the power of our control. Letting go doesn’t always mean that we don’t care about people anymore; it’s simply realizing that the only person we really have control over is our self.
Think for yourself, and allow others the privilege of doing so too. We all dance to the beat of a different drum. There are few absolute ‘rights’ and ‘wrongs’ in the world. You need to live your life your way – the way that’s right for you.
Are you really seeing whatever it is you’re looking at? You are today where your thoughts and perceptions have brought you; you will be tomorrow where your thoughts and perceptions take you. If you truly want change, you must first change your mind. The world around you changes when you change.
We can make decisions, or we can make excuses. – Life is a continuous exercise in creative problem solving. A mistake doesn’t become a failure until we refuse to correct it. Thus, most long-term failures are the outcome of people who make excuses instead of decisions.
Sometimes walking away is the only way to win. – Never waste your time trying to explain yourself to people who have proven that they are committed to misunderstanding you. In other words, don’t define your intelligence by the number of arguments you have won, but by the number of times you have said,
“This needless nonsense is not worth my time.”