Monday, October 16, 2006

To let go...

To let go doesn’t mean to stop caring, it means I can’t do it for someone else.
To let go is not to cut off, it’s the realization that I don’t control another.
To let go is not to enable, but to allow learning from natural consequences.
To let go is to admit powerlessness, which means the outcome is not in my hands.
To let go is not to try to change or blame another; I can only change myself.
To let go is not to care for, but to care about.
To let go is not to fix, but to be supportive.
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 arranging all the outcomes, but to allow others to affect their own outcomes.
To let go is not to be protective, it is 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 to search out my own shortcomings and to correct them.
To let go is not to adjust everything to my desires but to take each day as it comes and to cherish the moment.
To let go is not to criticize and regulate anyone 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 for the future.
To let go is to fear less and love more.

-by somebody

6 comments:

A. Walters said...

Does anyone know how to get a quotation mark to show at the beginning of my post (like on Kalipay's most recent post)? Or do I have to have a different template?

kalipay said...

when you are on the "new post" or "create" window, looking in the "compose" tab, there's a button on the toolbar that has a quotation mark on it. it's to the left of the numbering buttons, and to the left of spellcheck. select what you want to put into quotes, then click that quote button. does it work? :)

A. Walters said...

Hmmm, I tried that before. That's how it is right now (and has been), but the thing doesn't show up, at least not for me.

Warbler said...

That is so pretty, Anna

Warbler said...

It has been a while.... Do you need some interesting poems to post? :)

A. Walters said...

Actually...I have many things to post, just not found or made the time for it. :)