#reverb10: On Letting Go
The prompt for Sunday 5 December was issued by Alice Bradley
December 5 – Let Go.
What (or whom) did you let go of this year?
Why?
Interesting thought.
Thanks to some great writing from many of my friends this year, I have started to embrace simplicity. Obviously, I was not alone in that line of thinking. Many great minds were having the same kinds of thoughts.
What exactly did that mean for me?
For me, that meant that I needed to let go of some bad habits and ways for thinking.
One of the most important things I am letting go of (notice like everything else, it is a work in progress) my thinking about material possessions.
For years, I had been a huge part of the chase to have more. I would dream of when I would get that car I always wanted, or when I can get that coat I wanted, or that…you get the picture.
Truth is, I am finding that there is no happiness in those “things”. Now obviously there are things that are nice to have. And I have learned that it is healthy to treat oneself or family members occasionally. But in the place where I was…I allowed what I had to be a major part of my identity.
The level of stress in my life can only improve as I continue on this journey. So a new attitude about the “things” in my life, and better focus on the people in my life is one of the many things I am striving for in 2011.
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