Letting go doesn’t mean we don’t care. It doesn’t mean we shut down. Letting go means we stop trying to force outcomes and make people behave. It means we give up resistance to the way things are, for the moment. It means we stop trying to do the impossible - controlling that which we cannot - and instead, focus on what is possible - which usually means taking care of ourselves. And that we do this in gentleness, kindness, and love, as much as possible.
God doesn’t give you people you want, He gives you people you need - To help, hurt, leave, or love you so you can become the person you were meant to be.
I believe that everything happens for a reason. People change so that you can learn to let go, things go wrong so that you appreciate them when they’re right, you believe less so you eventually learn to trust no one but yourself, and sometimes good things fall apart so better things can come together.
If you’re feeling frightened about what comes next, don’t be. Embrace the uncertainty. Allow it to lead you places. Be brave as it challenges you to exercise both your heart and your mind as you create your own path towards happiness, don’t waste time with regret. Spin wildly into your next action. Enjoy the present, each moment, as it comes; because you’ll never get another one quite like it. And if you should ever look up and find yourself lost, simply take a breath and start over. Retrace your steps and go back to the purest place in your heart - where your hope lives. You’ll find your way again.
Pain is a relatively objective, physical phenomenon; suffering is our psychological resistance to what happens. Events may create physical pain, but they do not in themselves create suffering. Resistance creates suffering. Stress happens when your mind resists what is. The only problem in your life is your mind’s resistance to life as it unfolds.”“For the first time in a long time, my life is real. It doesn’t matter who ends up with who. And in some unearthly way its always gonna be you and me…soulmates. What we have goes beyond friendship…beyond lovers…its forever.” -Dawson’s Creek
“I’m in love with him. Totally and completely in love with my best friend. We can talk forever and more after that, and I guess one time while we were talking, I went and fell in love with him. Or maybe is was a time when I wasn’t with him, when I was with my other friends, and I realized that he was different, really different. Special, you could say. Or it could have been when I was alone, and I realized that I was thinking about him, and not even realizing it. I don’t know when it happened, just that it did, and now it won’t go away. He’s more then my best friend. He’s like my bestester friend. That’s how great of a friend he is, that I have to make up a word to describe him. My throat tightens, my heart beats faster, my stomach goes crazy, and I wonder if he even kind of feels the same about me every time I see him. And I really want him to feel the same way. But for right now, he can just be my best friend. That’s all I want. For him to stay with me forever, in whatever way he sees fit. Stay with me so we can talk forever and then some, laugh until our hearts can’t take it anymore, and be there when I need to cry on his shoulder, even if he doesn’t know why. There’s a lot of ways to love somebody, and my other friends all say that maybe it’s love towards a brother, or the best of friends I’m feeling, but I know it’s the real deal. I know, cause every time he smiles, I’m reminded why I haven’t just given up on him. Cause I’m totally and completely in love with my best friend. And that’s okay for now, as long as we can at least be best friends forever.”
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