How are you sure it is time to let something go?
When there has been a feeling, emotion, memory (memories), or a piece of you that has been linked to something/someone for so long?
How do you know that it’s time to look at it differently?
We hold on to the past remind ourselves we were living. That it meant something to us and to those who were there.
Humans tend to experience things and take what was learnt in the past into our future daily lives. Especially if it had a negative effect on us when we were there.
Meaning, we blanket our daily lives now with things of the past.
How do you know when it is time to allow things from the past to no longer filter the present moments we’re having?
Well - - it is always time.
Even though we have gone through so many things in our lives to this point, and we have been built up to know exactly what to do/what not to do - we become rigid in looking at the world around us.
Instead of seeing things with wonder, and with curiosity, we see it for what it may have always ended up being for us.
How do we evolve in a world we aren’t allowing to shift and form differently?
How do we find joy in laughter in something that never brought us that before?
We forgive. We forget. We look at the world through beginner’s eyes again.
Have you ever, in the present moment of your life, thought back to when something or someone hurt you?
Was this something you could have stopped?
Was it always going to happen?
Wouldn’t you rather not worry about it happening again (because it just may), and instead live your life with utter joy, and if that happens again - well, it happens again?
There are lessons to be learnt in all of the moments we have. In all of the relationships we embark on.
We are all given the chance to look around and change with the ever-changing world.
So, instead of clinging to the past blanket that we have placed on our lives, why not go into the future fresh & clean, seeking out thoughts and moments that instead inspire us, bring us up, evolve us, and light our fire.
So - it is always time to let things go.
It is always time to say, thank you for the lessons - I see you - I am fine now to forgive you, and to embark on a new challenge that may arise.
Then we can put our foot in front of the other again, and not expect what’s around the corner. What’s going to happen on that phone call. What something is going to feel like.
To not lead with the expectation of what we’ve always known.
Because people can surprise you.'
It takes us all time to heal, to expand - so give it time, and let it flow.
Release the need for resistance.
Release the need to see something for what it was.
And see it for what it is - right now.
Forgive.