"Leave your things behind because it's all going off without you." - Frou Frou, Let Go
December 5 – Let Go.
What (or whom) did you let go of this year? Why?
(Author: Alice Bradley)
"It's alright because there's beauty in the breakdown."
I let go of my younger self this year. I won't go back into it in detail since I have already written about it but I made peace with being a grown up. I've let go of whatever youthful dreams I had about life and replaced them with more mature ones.
This isn't a bad thing. I'm soon to be one of The Marrieds. If my family history is any indication, I'm halfway to dying. I have a much more acute sense of the passage of time and there's still a whole helluva lot I want to do in this life.
But I also have a new found appreciation for being responsible to others as well as myself. To the obligations I'm choosing for myself. To the partnerships and commitments and beliefs I hold.
And that creates new dreams. A dream of a healthy and fruitful life. Dreams of supporting and sharing with another. Dreams of being the man others imagine I am.
And to do less dreaming and more doing.
I've let go of the idea that I'll always have time. It's time to take advantage of those infinite possibilities before I get gone.
Let's Go!
