Letting Go

My early walk to the beach one morning presented me with a message I could not ignore. When I reached the ocean’s shore there was a startling sight, a very wide expanse of pristine clean sand. No doubt it had been left that way by the tide going out with unusual force and taking all debris with it. It was as if nature had demonstrated a necessary “letting go” of the overwhelming amount of garbage.

There was a simplicity about it. For some days I had been experiencing what can only be described as overwhelm, a nagging constantly for days about a problem I no longer wanted to deal with or think about. Seeing that expanse of clean sand encouraged me to consider just letting the problem go. I felt a huge relief even realizing I could make that choice.

Checking dictionary definitions for those words, “letting go”, revealed their meaning as “to set free” or “to stop holding something”. A website blog declared that letting go is “the art of detaching yourself from unpleasant, meaningless, or harmful thoughts and feelings” and that “keeps you in the past not letting you move forward”.

The message was clear. It was advice, by example, to rid oneself of a burden that rests uneasily on one’s emotional back or well-being shoulders. I made the decision to ”let go” of the overwhelm. I felt like that expanse of sand, clean, pristine, and free.

What are your thoughts? Have you experienced a challenge like this? Do you have a challenge like this now?

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