Yesterday I started to watch Ted Lasso, a tv show that follows the story of a football coach in the UK, with 0 experience. It’s funny, insightful and deep.
As I did my mourning journaling today, I kept thinking about this idea of letting go, present throughout the show.
How willing are you to do so, with the ones you love?
Sometimes, with people around us, we have this tendency to “hold on”.
Valuing people around us, making sure they’re appreciated, that’s amazing. But holding on to them means that, if they want to move, we’re stopping them. Sometimes that may be good. Others not so much.
Maybe we need to be willing to let go of people that once were very important to us.
Maybe we need to be willing to let go of certain ideas about ourselves and the world.
Maybe we need to be willing to let people carry on with their lives with a worldview that we don’t resonate with but actually makes them happier.
The willingness to let go, literally and metaphorically, is one of the biggest acts of love one can do. Both to others and to ourselves.
So, today, let it go.