Let Yourself Overcome
Today I’m staying on the down low, trying to reign in my thoughts so that I can redefine what it means to take things a little slower. I’m not listening as closely to my opinions or perspective. Sometimes you have to do that. It’s important to just let it all be what it is.
I can spend a lot of time trying to make sense of things. I want to be able to understand so that I can bring analysis and theory to something. So I can bring solution. I want to take a concept or a situation and bring multiple perspectives to it, so that in every angle there is a quote or a thought or symbolism to the meaning of something greater. I like to remain objective so that I can fully see the facts and the makings and the mechanics of what it is I’m looking at, then start developing something even more complex from there.
But today isn’t the time for making sense of things. That won’t bring peace or security. It won’t even detail productivity. It’ll just distract me from where I need to be in my mind and in my space right now.
It’s important to steady yourself, to gain perspective by letting go of all the roots and veins you’re holding onto. You can’t keep pumping a heart if it doesn’t want to beat that way. If it’s meant to beat on its own, you have to let it do that. You have to trust that it knows what to do and release your own idea of a pulse.
That’s how I feel today… I just need to know how to live and breathe, how to be myself and live free. How to not let my heart get wrapped up in all the antics of perspective or even learning, because learning isn’t always growing.
Sometimes growing is just letting yourself stretch. Letting yourself co-exist with the growing pains so you can naturally mature. Growing isn’t magical. It isn’t. And it doesn’t happen quickly either. You can’t force yourself to grow.
Growing has to come naturally and sometimes I think by trying to grow, we stop ourselves from growing in a healthy way. I’m sorry, but you can’t get over it unless you go through it. As much as we want to, we can’t wish this year or our experiences away and ultimately, I don’t think we really want to. You know why? Because we are overcoming it. We are making it and we have the power to redefine it.
I genuinely believe there’s a better way just ahead. We might feel limited right now, but that’s just unfamiliarity and uncontrollable conditions in our midst. There’s a beauty right on the other side, just out of view. It’s around the corner and we’re meant to make it to that corner. We’re meant to strap up our boots and make it.
It’s okay to let go and see what happens when you lose control of the things you can’t grasp any way. Loosen the stress and tension. Close your eyes and relax your forehead. Roll your head in circles and shake out your arms. Let your blood flow in deep breaths. Stop going back to all the conversations and situations. Stop reliving the nightmare like a prison. Don’t think about any of it any more. Let yourself live freely today, your body, mind and soul be released from any limited expectations. Let yourself grow.
We’re meant to overcome, and sometimes that comes by anchoring ourselves in good old fashion silence and peace. In rest and laughter. Let the questions sit on the sideline, let the analysis take a back seat and turn your little red wagon toward the horizon, so you can catch a glimpse of the sun before it tucks itself into the shadow of the mountains for the night.
