Julio's Musings

(Picture found on Google and taken from the Click and Grow Blog)

Let go. Two simple words, yet it’s difficult for most of us. Letting go means we’ve done all we can. It means nothing else we can do will change the outcome to something we want. Letting go means leaving something behind. Letting go means accepting change.

I’ll tell you what it doesn’t mean, though. It doesn’t mean you gave up. It doesn’t mean that you’ve simply quit. It doesn’t mean you don’t have more fight inside of you. 

Sounds a bit contradictory, doesn’t it? How can I say that you have more fight in you, but at the same time that you’ve done everything you can? Well, it’s simple. Just because you can fight until the you die doesn’t mean you should. Fighting until the end (which often times with long fights is a bitter end) doesn’t mean the outcome will be different. It just means you’ll be different: tired, angry, sad, and filled with regret.

Do you become that person? Is the constant non-stop battle worth losing yourself over? 

Change happens. It’s an inevitable part of life. It’s also a necessary part of life. Not every job is permanent. No child stays a forever a child. Not every friend is a lifelong friend.

Plants grow towards the light. It’s what gives them energy and the food that they need to survive, and so they gravitate towards the light. This is true for people as well. We grow together with our friends because they give us something positive to help energize our lives. As time goes on, though, some friends cease being a light in our lives. Sometimes they start to fill us with negativity and drama and our growth begins to slow. We lose light. So we find other things or other friends to gravitate towards, things that can counter the negativity we get from our previous source of energy. Well, if we’re lucky, at least. Sometimes we are stuck in this no light situation. And we then try to make the best of it and to fight for it. Occasionally it will get better, but many times it doesn’t. And the only thing to do is let go and seek out new light or wither away.

Let go. Sometimes we have all we can get from people and we have to move on to grow more. Perhaps one day those people can grow together with us again, but it won’t happen if both wither away. So let go. Let go and look around at what is really happening. Are you the one withering away? Or are you the former light that has ceased shining brightly for someone else? Are you the one walking away from something or are you being walked away from? Either way let go, move on, find some light, and grow.