Letting Go...

Letting Go does not mean to stop caring;

       it means I can’t do it for someone else.

Letting Go is not to cut myself out;

       it’s the realization I can’t control another.

Letting Go is not to enable

       but to allow learning from natural consequences.

Letting Go is to admit powerlessness

       which means the outcome is not in my hands.

Letting Go is not to try to change or blame another;

       it’s to make the most of myself.

Letting Go is not to care for

       but to care about.

Letting Go is not to fix

       but to be supportive.

Letting Go is not to judge

       but to allow another to be a human being.

Letting Go is not to be in the middle arranging the outcome

       but allowing others to affect their own destinies.

Letting go is not to be protective;

       it’s to permit another to face reality.

Letting go is not to nag, scold or argue

       but instead to search out and correct my own shortcomings.

Letting go is not to adjust everything to my own desires

       but to take each day as it comes and cherish myself in it.

Letting go is not to criticize and regulate anybody

       but to try to become what I dream I can be.

Letting go is not to regret the past

       but to grow and live for the future.

Letting go is to fear less and live more.

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