What could you let go of, for the sake of harmony?
This isn’t what I could let go of, it’s what I did let go of. This is a warning.
Every single person you give in to will take more of you until there’s nothing left to give. Then you won’t be enough. Nor will they respect you.
Sadly that can include your children, don’t teach them that’s okay.
Every single dream you give away will take a part of you with it.
Allow people to emotionally exhaust you and you won’t have the energy to do more than survive, and that will take everything you have.
Compromise is only right if everyone is compromising. If everyone is prepared to let go of something. The middle ground is the only place to aim for.
If I’m asked to let go of something I care about now, you’d better be prepared to come to that half way point. If you’re not the answer will be a polite no.
One thing I’m grateful I did let go of was the nervous, uncertain me. Obviously the people in my life left with her. They needed my weakness to make them strong. When I left they stood revealed.
This a hard hitting blog. But that question chilled me to the bone, it’s a dangerous question for good people.
Now if you ask what I would happily let go of:
- War
- All violence
- All abuse
- All prejudice
- Trolling
- Tearing others down
- Poverty
- All illness
- Basically anything and everything bad or hurtful
Those things I would part with instantly to restore harmony.
Just never again would I let go of a part of myself. Nor should you. You’ll never be enough if parts of you are missing.
Soothing Sunday
Deb xx