The Art of Letting Go

by Rania Naim

Letting go is really hard, especially when you have to let go of something you really want, whether it’s an opportunity, or someone you really liked or loved, or even any expectations you had about something.

Anything that feels forced or harder than it should be or causes you pain and distress is not meant for you.

The more you fight for something that is not meant for you, the more it will fight you.

The only thing more unthinkable than leaving was staying; the only thing more impossible than staying was leaving.

if we keep holding on to toxic situations or toxic people because we’ve already done too much or it’s too late to change things, we are only setting ourselves up for a miserable life.

Holding on to something out of fear that it will never happen again, is the definition of fear. We have to be fearless in letting go.

If an opportunity passed you by, it didn’t really want to stop at your station, if someone let you go, they didn’t really want to stay, if someone else got what you were praying for, this blessing was not written for you to begin with and you will be blessed in another way.

Making our own independent decisions without seeing them through someone else’s eyes, helps us to find out who we truly are.

Some people are meant to be in your life, you just won’t and can’t immediately know if they are meant to be in your life forever, or for a short period of time to teach you some sort of life lesson.

That no matter how far we run or stray or falter, a different version of ourselves lives on inside of every person we have ever fallen half in love with. And we like having those versions to run back to. We like to keep them alive inside each other, in case we ever need to return to them.

But don’t waste too much time loving someone who doesn’t make you feel whole, don’t spend time with someone who makes you wish you’d rather be single.

This is me knowing that I have to let you go. That no matter how much I love you or how hard we work at this or how badly we both want each other to be happy, we are never going to be the right partners for each other.