The Power of LETTING GO

Nothing lasts forever.*

It used to be great in the past.
Living in the same place.
Never having to pack up and move.
Always able to see our lives stacked there before us.

Those drawers, attics, basements, and boxes filled with forgotten ideals, dreams, and long-lost memories are treasure troves for treasure seekers—and contain just as much dirty laundry as the best Google and Microsoft search and data storage.

It’s only when you have to move that the volume of accumulated garbage becomes apparent.
Why garbage, you might ask?
Well, because most of what we keep serves little or no purpose—and is rarely looked at or referenced.

Okay, so flipping through those photo albums is nice on a rainy afternoon—and deeply embarrassing when the kids happen to be by your side. A case of the good, the bad, and the ugly.

But it’s also all those other knick-knacks that fill corners and shelves—that belong to a forgotten past.

Moving from one home to another in the same neighbourhood is almost as traumatic as moving to another city. But not nearly as traumatic as moving to another country—even if you discount that question of cost.

Some things that made up our past lives really need to be left there.

Fogy has moved several times.
Fogy has lived several lives—or that’s the way he likes to refer to them.
This has meant that projects started in one life have not easily been carried over to the next.

The idea behind this post seems centered more around the physical aspects—those things we hoard that fill spaces that are not necessarily empty.
They consume time and energy in keeping them “alive” while providing very little that might easily be considered essential to our daily lives.

Fogy loves nostalgia and enjoys delving into remembrances of the past.
Now, though, there has been so much past that those remembrances are becoming more and more cloudy, less contextual—and have quite frankly lost the importance they once held.

Memories fade—especially in this accelerated time mode we live in today.

Respecting the memories of the ones we love (or loved) is important, but not to the detriment of what we are living now.
Yes, it’s easy to forget some things—and some people.
But that is what life is all about.

The Power of LETTING GO is exactly this.
Hold what is truly dear in your heart.
Throw away what is NOT.

This means that material things can perhaps better the lives of others—in museums.
Most of our offspring will NOT have heard of what these memories refer to.
Yes—and we will be forgotten just as quickly.

And that’s not such a bad thing.
Lives must be lived in the present, for the future.
LETTING GO of those things—and people—of the past is a really healthy way of doing this.

Driving ourselves to sadness—and even vengeance in some cases—is a sure sign of approaching madness.

LET GO.
Enjoy the memories—especially the good ones.
And do NOT let the bad things step up and slap us in the face.

Bad things happen to all of us.
But if that’s all we remember—when there were so many more good things—
then madness is surely taking over.

LET GO of those things that really do NOT matter.
Material things are just that—things.
They can be taken away too easily for us to place so much value in them.

Yes, they may represent the trophies that speak of the endless efforts it took to make them a reality.
But then again—still living is an even greater trophy.

When you depart this life, the only thing you can take with you is you.
Think about it—and think about the weight of everything you have hoarded around you.
There will be no space for carry-on where you are going.

LETTING GO is where sanity returns and healthy memories alight.
Are those things you LET GO less important? No, of course not.
But they are the past—and not this present that you live now.

Cheers

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