How do we know when it is time to ‘let go’? To know when, “to hold ’em”, “to fold ’em”, “walk away”, or “run”? You may have gathered I’m a big fan of the song by Kenny Rogers, The Gambler. https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=the+gambler
It’s such a great song. A song that embraces the vicissitudes of life. But does, letting go, mean giving up? It can. Or it can simply mean, not now. There are a lot of things I have let go. This “LETTING GO” business isn’t always easy. I mean…knowing when to hold ’em and knowing when to fold ’em is sometimes hard, we’re not talking about laundry…
Well, we could but I don’t want to talk about old dirty socks or worn out shoes or shirts that have been hanging around in the closet for a quarter of a century. Of course, I’m not dismissing having a clean house. In fact, having a clean house can actually help in letting go of some of our other baggage. How many of us sometimes become mental hoarders. We have so much traffic running around in our heads, without having the capacity or lacking that intuitive ability to either filter or direct it in a positive way. It’s not always easy being a HUMAN BEING.
I would never consider myself a prolific writer. I don’t write everyday. I may think about it but don’t do it. I’m a procrastinator. I’ll make every excuse in the book, although I can’t put it all on work anymore, I’m retired. But it’s been almost a year and I just haven’t had the urgency to write anything. Yeah…I let go alright and to add on another excuse: I DON’T HAVE ANY DEADLINES. I don’t have an audience chomping at the bit waiting for me to produce. In fact, if there are a few people out there who do read my post, I’m grateful.
A lot can happen in a year, and my life (like everyone else’s) has been full of creative activity but one of the driving forces for me to write now is that I don’t want a year to go by without posting anything. August would be a year. So, yes, I did in fact give myself a deadline, a self imposed one. But I still don’t feel pressured enough where I feel I’m missing out on a big paycheck or risk losing thousands of subscribers. So for the few of you who read this blog, THE DEPARTMENT OF POETIC LICENSE, I’m very grateful and sincerely hope that you take away some valuable nuggets that you can use and also find comfort that in whatever you are going through in life you’re not alone.
My self-imposed dead-line (as you may notice) to finish a blog before a year had passed; well, a year has come and gone, and while I have sometimes wondered why I haven’t been able to be more disciplined when it comes to writing. I can probably come up with a litany of excuses and go down that rabbit hole of could haves, should haves and if’s, which in reality is simply called “PROCRASTINATION” or perhaps, ” PARALYSIS BY ANALYSIS”.
At this point in my life, I sometimes feel like a surfer; I wait with my surfboard for that big wave of energy, then I time it just right and jump on my board and ride it until I can’t anymore. I know that next wave will eventually come.
Letting go isn’t always easy. But if we learn anything; it is good to know that we don’t have to continually beat ourselves up with all of those : would haves, should haves and ifs. All we have is this moment, A SNAP SHOT IN TIME.
I want to pass along a nugget that I read from a publication, “LIFE IS LIKE A CAMERA, JUST FOCUS ON WHAT’S IMPORTANT, CAPTURE THE GOOD TIMES, DEVELOP FROM THE NEGATIVES, AND IF THINGS DON’T WORK OUT…JUST TAKE ANOTHER SHOT.”
UNTIL NEXT TIME. STAY FOCUSED, BE WELL, AND LIVE YOUR BEST LIFE!
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