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Friday, March 31, 2006

"Letting Go" (Detachment)

I was going through some old papers, and I came across a packet that I got at a foster care confrence that had a poem about letting go that I absolutly LOVE:
To let go does not mean to stop caring.
It means that 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 to 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 out of myself.
To let got 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 of arranging all the outcomes, but to allow others to affect their own 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 criticize and regulate anybody, but to try to become what I dream I can be.
To let go is not to adjust everyting to my desires, but to take everyday as it comes and cherish myself in it.
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 MYSELF MORE!
-author unknown

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