letting it go..
" i don't wanna get bitter, i don't wanna talk cruel, i don't wanna get old before i have to.." -jill sobule
Yeah, as so very well put by Ms. Jill Sobule here, I realized last night that I don’t want to hold a grudge anymore since there really is no point in being mad. I can’t fully say that I’m over all the bad things that happened, all I’m sure about is that I’ve decided to see past my pride.
Pride, its definitely a vice. Cause from what I’ve noticed, when something bad happens, like when you get hurt, it’s the first that takes on the offensive. You go about and rant “How can he do this to ME?” or “The nerve of that asshole..” or “That creep, he’s never gonna get away with this..” the list goes on and on. Of course there’s no denying that getting hurt is never a walk in the park. The hurt that slowly creeps into your heart threatening to make it burst at any given moment is never really easy to get over with. But if I’ve gotten any wiser from everything that’s happened, I’ve come to know that these things do pass, maybe not as soon as we’d hope maybe not as fast as we want it to be, but they do and how soon or how late these things will pass really would depend on us. Usually it is pride that is keeping us from letting it go, from letting all this bitterness to get past us because we get so attached to the fact that we got hurt that we don’t try to see past that and we get obsessed with protecting ourselves that we tend to get so cynical about everything. We hold on to pride for dear life not realizing that letting go of it would set us free. What I’ve realized is, you can’t really protect yourself all the time, you can’t just isolate yourself from everything that can hurt you cause then what? You’d probably end up sad, bitter, alone and never any wiser.
The world is full of things that can hurt us and they will, one way or another. That probably sounds awful but it’s just a matter of looking at things. Pain isn’t always so bad, it teaches things, let’s you get to know yourself a little more, let’s you know how strong you are, it let’s you learn a lot about yourself that you never knew about and for me that is something beautiful. It kind of reminded me of a certain line in that Tom Cruise movie Vanilla Sky ‘the sweet won’t be as sweet without the sour’ and it does make perfect sense, doesn’t it?
So last night was my epiphany, I realized that I don’t want to be bitter because it just gets so tiring after a while. It’s so tiring to always see the bad in things, in people, in situations. It’s so tiring to be so cynical, so sarcastic, so jaded that you hardly recognize yourself anymore. I realized that in being like this, I’ve been blocking anything good to come into my life and I’m the only one who’s suffering. There really is no point in being mad anymore. I’ve decided to let it go, I see it now, in letting go I have nothing to lose instead there is me to be found…
Pride, its definitely a vice. Cause from what I’ve noticed, when something bad happens, like when you get hurt, it’s the first that takes on the offensive. You go about and rant “How can he do this to ME?” or “The nerve of that asshole..” or “That creep, he’s never gonna get away with this..” the list goes on and on. Of course there’s no denying that getting hurt is never a walk in the park. The hurt that slowly creeps into your heart threatening to make it burst at any given moment is never really easy to get over with. But if I’ve gotten any wiser from everything that’s happened, I’ve come to know that these things do pass, maybe not as soon as we’d hope maybe not as fast as we want it to be, but they do and how soon or how late these things will pass really would depend on us. Usually it is pride that is keeping us from letting it go, from letting all this bitterness to get past us because we get so attached to the fact that we got hurt that we don’t try to see past that and we get obsessed with protecting ourselves that we tend to get so cynical about everything. We hold on to pride for dear life not realizing that letting go of it would set us free. What I’ve realized is, you can’t really protect yourself all the time, you can’t just isolate yourself from everything that can hurt you cause then what? You’d probably end up sad, bitter, alone and never any wiser.
The world is full of things that can hurt us and they will, one way or another. That probably sounds awful but it’s just a matter of looking at things. Pain isn’t always so bad, it teaches things, let’s you get to know yourself a little more, let’s you know how strong you are, it let’s you learn a lot about yourself that you never knew about and for me that is something beautiful. It kind of reminded me of a certain line in that Tom Cruise movie Vanilla Sky ‘the sweet won’t be as sweet without the sour’ and it does make perfect sense, doesn’t it?
So last night was my epiphany, I realized that I don’t want to be bitter because it just gets so tiring after a while. It’s so tiring to always see the bad in things, in people, in situations. It’s so tiring to be so cynical, so sarcastic, so jaded that you hardly recognize yourself anymore. I realized that in being like this, I’ve been blocking anything good to come into my life and I’m the only one who’s suffering. There really is no point in being mad anymore. I’ve decided to let it go, I see it now, in letting go I have nothing to lose instead there is me to be found…
~for squirt, thanks for helping me realize all this..you take care~
posted by cherrycoloredfunk at 3:47 PM
3 Comments:
pain is bittersweet but nevertheless as beautiful as happiness is...pride is what gets the best of us but learning to let go is indeed priceless..and one of the greatest lessons life teaches us..
galing. galing. galing. im speechless.
you get inner peace by letting go ;)
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