LETTING GO TAKES LOVE
To let go does not mean to stop caring, it means I can’t do it for someone else.
To let go is not to cut myself off, it’s the realization I can’t control another.
To let go is not to enable, but allow learning from natural consequences.
To let go is to admit powerlessness, which means the outcome is not in my hands.
To let go is not to try to change or blame another, it’s to make the most of myself.
To let go is not to care for, but to care about.
To let go is not to fix, but to be supportive.
To let go is not to judge, but to allow another to be a human being.
To let go is not to be in the middle arranging all the outcomes, but to allow others to affect their destinies.
To let go is not to be protective, it’s to permit another to face reality.
To let go is not to deny, but to accept.
To let go is not to nag, scold or argue, but instead to search out my own shortcomings and correct them.
To let go is not to adjust everything to my desires, but to take each day as it comes and cherish myself in it.
To let go is not to criticize or regulate anybody, but to try to become what I dream I can be.
To let go is not to regret the past, but to grow and live for the future.
To let go is to fear less and love more.
Remember: The time to love is short.
(author unknown)
Category: Poems & Stories
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See me cry when I’m overjoyed
See me cry when I’m so hurt
Because you’ll never see me cry on ordinary situations…I cried when I lost a lover who I loved so much
I cried when my grandmother passed away
I cried when I failed a major subject in college
You’ll never see me cry on ordinary situationsI cried when I regained my faith in the Lord
I cried when I saw an old friend
I cried when I saw my mother back from a long seminar
You’ll never see me cry on ordinary situationsI am tough, as they say
A soldier, a survivor, a fighter; so brave
But I also cry when things are hurting so much
I cry when things are beyond what I can bearThanks for all the people who cry with me
And also for those who cry for me
I want to say this, crying is not being weak
It’s acknowledging my emotions; it’s being real -
Cherry, a good friend of mine, came back from the States after a two-month stay there. We were supposed to go back to her tarot reader for our mid-year tarot reading. Last January, she referred me to her tarot reader for my 2008 life, love and money forecast. It was Cherry who was the promoter; I was just very curious about tarot stuffs.
Here are some of the things that the tarot reader read last January for me:
- PV and I will totally end our relationship because of a scandal that will shock me. I have yet to know the gravity of that supposed scandal. I’m honest to say that there are times when I feel that something very big and bad happened to PV that’s why he acted and reacted that way towards our relationship. I assess how I feel about why our relationship has to end and I realize that I don’t feel any bitterness towards him. It must be my great love for him again?
- I will get pregnant before the year ends. I almost laughed when the tarot reader said this. “Wala po akong ka-sex ngayon!” I said. But she insisted that it’s what she sees on the card. It’s something that I don’t want to happen: getting pregnant by someone that I don’t even love. Surely, I don’t practice casual sex but there are other ways in which a girl can get pregnant. What if someone forces me and gets me preggy? Morbid ka talaga, Iris! Wag naman sana! Good thing, I was able to save the link on door locks that Joel sent early this year.
- I will have the opportunity to travel abroad. What’s so impossible about that? Maybe a better interpretation of this reading would be: I will have the opportunity to travel abroad for official business purposes. Hay, sana nga!
- I will be promoted. Hahaha! Really? How can that happen when I’m just starting with my new function? Well, sana nga!
I asked Cherry when we’ll go back to the tarot reader. It seemed that she’s no longer interested in tarot readings! Himala!
“Ayoko na, Iris, bumalik dun. Nagbabasa na ako ng Purpose Driven Life, eh!” she said in between sips on her latte.
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Cute? Is it still the proper word to describe nice clean A-1 guys at my age? I notice that since I’m back in the dating market, there are frequent sightings of my cute ex-schoolmates! Hahaha!
Cute #1 told me that he had a thing for me before but he was too shy to ask me out because I was always in the company of my then boyfriend. Oh, really? I never really noticed that he had a thing for me. He now works for a top company in the city and he’s married, too. Sayang!
Cute # 2 sent me a message on my Friendster account. Kaso bakit ganun, when I replied to him, he did not bother to answer back! Hahaha!
Cute # 3 sent me a message on my YM. Since it was an offline message, I replied while he was offline. I am waiting if he will bother to reply.
By the way, aside from the cute ex-schoolmates sightings, people from my past are going back to my life from the people from my former work to my college schoolmates to high schoolmates. It’s like they’re synchronized to come back to my life!
The World of Second Chances 