Letting Go of Unfit Things

Well, being crazy sometimes can bring you a lot of things in your mind.

* Let go of the approval of others. Be yourself. To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment. Display the image that imperfection is beauty, madness is genius and it's better to be absolutely ridiculous than absolutely boring.

* Let go of anger and resentment. I have been trying to be forgiving and yet there were times in my life, whole years, when anger got the better of me, even now. Ugliness turned me inside out. There was a certain satisfaction in bitterness. I courted it. It was standing outside, and I invited it in but it was cancer. It ate me and sent me to oblivion.

* Let go of the idea of a perfect partner. Throw away those standards you have. Find the person that you can love with all of your heart, not with the conditional preferences you have. One that you feel most comfortable with and accepts you as who you are; because not falling DEEPLY in love is like living no life. Falling in love is like getting hit by a truck and yet you're still alive. You're just sick to your stomach or some even call it butterflies. You become high one minute, low the next; starving hungry but unable to eat. hot, cold, forever horny, full of hope and enthusiasm, with momentary depressions that wipe you out. It is also not being able to remove the smile from your face, loving life with a mad passionate intensity, and feeling ten years younger. Love does not appear with any warning signs. You fall into it as if pushed from a high diving board. No time to think about what's happening. It's inevitable. An event you can't control. A crazy, heart-stopping, roller-coaster ride that just has to take its course. You can't expect something like that from your checklist.

* Let go of the "perfect life." There is no perfect life. Life is what you make it. No matter what happens, you will eventually mess things up (who hasn't?); but at least you have free will and get to decide how you would mess it up, right? Make friends; but remember, people come and go. Be thankful to the ones who will stay with you through everything, they're your true best friends. Don't ever let go of them. Find your love; and they come and go too (trust me, most of them will.); but don't give up. You will find that one. It won't be called absolute happiness to find the half who makes you whole if you haven't struggled to look for him/her. Just because you failed once, doesn't mean you're going to fail at everything else. Believe in yourself because if not, who will then?

* Let go of the obsession of getting rich. I do not mean disregarding a realistic goal of exhaling yourself from monetary problems, but to stop letting money be your sole motivator. Appreciate the life you live and be grateful to every thing/person you have. Live each day by having daily goals in life and life long goals to hope for tomorrow.

* Let go of excuses and procrastination. Live in the present and get your shit done when it needs to be done. Maximize your time to the best of your ability. Complete each task as soon as you can. This allows you to feel free from worry and stress by getting out of things as soon as possible. The only thing standing between you and your goal is the bullshit story you keep telling yourself as to why you can't achieve it.

* Let go of your baggage. We've all been hurt one time or another by someone we loved, or we thought we've received love. Carrying this to future relationships will only be disastrous. The truth is, unless you let go, unless you forgive yourself, unless you forgive the situation, unless you realize that the situation is over, you cannot move forward. It is important that we forgive ourselves for making mistakes. We need to learn from our errors and move on because we were never in control anyway.

* Let go of expectations. If you expect nothing from anything and anybody, you're never disappointed. We always believe that we accept the love we think we deserve. Unfortunately, people and things around us will eventually mess up. If you spend your life concentrating on what everyone else thought of you, you would forget who you really are; that the face you showed to the world was just a mask and beneath it was nothing but nothingness. 

* Let go of insecurity and being judgmental. Why do we need to constantly worry about what is going on in other people's lives? Minding our own business would mean our lives being more meaningful. Besides, you won't be needing insecurity to be judgmental. Heck, you've had a share of pains and all but you made it through. You already have huge balls but at least you've been humbled and that will make you grateful for everyday you have; and I promise you it doesn’t even matter for others what you believe, how you live your life and how strongly you become for others. Somebody else, somewhere, thinks you are in the wrong. Somebody else, somewhere, thinks your beliefs are senseless or illogical. Somebody else, somewhere, thinks you have it all wrong. In fact, there are a lot of people in this world who do.

* Let go of Negativity. What you put out into universe will come back for you. Change that way of thinking and be grateful for everything you have and you will have more. Concentrating on what you do not have will never have enough. Keep your face toward the sunshine and shadows will fall behind you. Just like what Mahatma Gandhi have taught us, "Keep your thoughts positive because your thoughts become your words. Keep your words positive because your words become your behavior. Keep your behavior positive because your behavior becomes your habits. Keep your habits positive because your habits become your values. Keep your values positive because your values become your destiny."