Letting Go of Stress, Worry and the Unnecessary

This is a poem that I found in one of my journals today. I didn’t write it. I like what it says so I am leaving it here for you to study.

Letting go is a message that is hard to teach. I believe that it is better to be an experiment.

With that being said…

I hope that this bit of words communicates to you the importance of “Letting Go”.

 

LETTING GO

Letting go does not mean to stop caring; it means I can’t do it for someone else.

Letting go is not to cut myself off; it’s the realization I can’t control another.

Letting go is to admit powerlessness; which means the outcome is not in my hands.

Letting go is not to try to change or blame another; it’s to make the most of myself.

Letting go is not to care for; but to care about.

Letting go is not to fix; but to be supportive. It’s not to judge but to allow another to be a human being.

Letting go is not to be in the middle arranging the outcome; but to allow others to affect other own destinies.

letting go is not to be protective; it’s to permit another to face reality.

Letting go is not to deny; but to accept.

Letting go is not to nag, scold or argue; but instead to search out my own shortcomings and correct them.

Letting go is not to adjust everything to my own desires; but to take each day as it comes and cherish myself in it.

Letting go is not to criticize and regulate anybody but to try to become what I dream I can be.

Letting go is not to regret the past; but to grow and live for the future.

Letting go is to fear less and live more.

– Anonymous

 

 

Try it for yourself. What does it feel like to free yourself from the burden of needless stress. I’m pretty sure we need ‘less’ stress in our lives.

Isn’t that a funny play on words: the phrase is a double entendre in one sense and, with some poetic license, it is an oxymoron. I love language and communication.

I want to keep the lines of communication open here on this blog. So, comment below on your thoughts about this poem. Do me and your good friend a favor and share this blog.

I promise to do what I can to make them thank you for having read it.

 

D Arlando Fortune

Keep it as simple as A, B, C’s; 1, 2, 3’s; and, do, re, mi’s

Yo Mam Ain’t Got Nothin’ On My Mama!

Dear Mama,

If I had just a few pages to write you and tell you what you mean to me, it would only scratch the surface. I know that I have put you through a lot of emotional times and I will probably continue to do so. I don’t know how you have been so strong through it all but “Thank You” and…

I STILL LOVE YOU

You hated when I was playing football and get hit so hard by all those big boys but you were the one who said that you didn’t want me to be in band and be picked on (even though I was good at playing the sax…First chair, babi!)…but I still love so…

THANK YOU

You hated when I came home disappointed from yet another failed relationship but you encouraged me to try again when I was ready. Besides, she wasn’t good enough for me anyway, right? (And, I still think that it’s cute that you still tell me not to be kissing these girls when I have a son?!) But I still love you and…

THANK YOU

You hated when I lost at anything but you would not let me utter the words “I can’t”. You reminded me that can’t is not in the dictionary and even if it was you don’t know the meaning of it. (Mama you still have problems pronouncing words  mispronounce anything even if that meant looking it up. The nerve!) But I still love you and I still…

THANK YOU

You hated when I lied, cheated, and stole because I was lost. You were there to bail me out when I needed help. But you finally put your foot down and said for me to be a man. (How you put up with me stupidity and continued to believe in me I still don’t know.) For that I love you and I also…

THANK YOU

Mama, you WILL have your dream house! You will be retired before 65 (and will probably still look like you’re my age… God bless you!) because I love you!

Loving you always and forever,
D Arlando Fortune

Corny but so what! When you write your letter to your Mama or Daddy or guardian you can end it however you want.)
If you have someone that you are grateful for having been in your life. Please stand up and let them know today!!

Write a comment below saying thank you to whomever it is and then tell them (in an email, a text, a phone call if you must. But face-to-face would be best.)

My Mama isn’t perfect but she is the most perfect woman I know and that’s why I can say confidently “YO MAMA AIN’T GOT NOTHIN’ ON MY MAMA!!!”

 

Keep it as simple as A, B, C’s; 1, 2, 3’s; and, do, re, mi’s!