As a personal kick in the pants and to get myself writing here again, I’ve decided to take up the Reverb10 challenge – to respond, every day in December, to a prompt that help me reflect on 2010 and make 2011 everything 2010 wasn’t. Oh, was that giving too much away?
December 5: Let Go.
What (or whom) did you let go of this year? Why?
Reflect and Manifest
2010 was a year of letting go: of relationships that did not serve me, of excuses I made for people, of my own self-conception, of both limitations and false beliefs that held me hostage.
But the most important thing I’ve let go of this year is the belief that everyone else is physically experiencing the world the way I am – they’re just dealing with the fatigue and the achiness and the pain better.
Letting go of this has helped and is helping me be more attentive to my own needs and more able to meet them, because I’m not trying to keep up with people who aren’t experiencing the same things. It’s helped me insist on better care, set better boundaries, and make better decisions about my time and energy. And no matter what happens next, all of that is good.
Comment Fu
What about you? How would you respond to this prompt in your own life?