Thursday, November 11, 2010

Holding On/Letting Go

I don't want to hold on.
I want the strength to let go.
   - from Sweet Serendipity by Lee DeWyze

How did I get here?  How do I move forward?  Those are the questions I ask myself every minute of every day... 

Letting go of what has become my life over the past 21 years is quite a daunting task.  I'm questioning every decision I make and, thus, making so many mistakes.  I have searched for strength to let go anywhere I could...in friends, in music, in inspirational quotations.  I now realize that all I've succeeded to do is hide from myself, my pain.  I can no longer hide.  The pain won't let me...  It's time to face all that I've been feeling.  It's time to start moving forward with what I have and to stop waiting for answers and for resolution to come.  I know this...but, oh, how the fear and loneliness torture me...  So...today, I am going to start moving and stop hiding.  I MUST face the fear and fight the loneliness.  If I stay here, in hiding, I will surely cease to be... And ceasing to be is NOT an option.

I have no choice but to face what is my life.  To take the cards that I have been dealt and make the best plays I can to try to win the game.  So far, I seem to be losing every hand...but with each hand lost, I am learning more about how to play the game.  One day I will win a hand...I hope.  Maybe then I'll find that Sweet Serendipity...

"Yea, though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death
         I will fear no evil, for thou art with me;" - Excerpt from Psalms 23:4

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