When I went out to chop wood while waiting for the internet to be resurrected, my mind eased over into another category – a relative of dropping, but deeper and wider:
Letting go.
As in “turning loose on purpose.”
Big difference.
For example:
Dropping a dish is fast and easy.
Letting go of love takes time.
And it’s never quick and easy.
Letting go always takes time – disconnecting from family, lovers, friends, children, religion, culture, country, professions, feelings, memories, notions of self, and ways of life.
All that.
And I, Robert Fulghum, would add, from my own notebooks, some rules for letting go:
There is a time to let go.
And a time to hold on.
When you become old and wise, experience will have taught you which is which and what was the right thing to do at the time.
You will have scars on your soul to show for it.
You may have to let go to go on . . .
But never break or cut what you can untie.
-excerpted from RobertFulghum.com
Worth Repeating
Some of us think that holding on makes us strong, but sometimes it is letting go.
-Hermann Hesse
