Letting Go And Moving On

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Letting Go and Moving On

Letting go and moving on can be a painful
experience, but not letting go and moving on is
just as equally as painful and a potentially
more torturous experience. We may feel torn
between these two paths but ultimately we only
find peace when we choose to let go and move
on.

Life is a curious event. It is like enormous,
interactive, abstract art piece in which us,
the users, participate and engage with and are
supposed to observe and form our own
conclusions and understanding of. Life does
not come with a standard introductory note and
neither does it have a user manual.

The entire phenomenon of life and living is so
obscure that its brilliant. Brilliant in the
sense that through its obscurity and the demand
for user participation, we are forced to
experience and ideally learn the lessons
bestowed by life.

From this perspective that life itself is both
a work of art and a teacher, we become the
artists and students of our own, personal lives
and lifestyles, so through our own experiences
of being the artist and creating the life of
our dreams, we are also simultaneously the
student and learning life’s lessons that have
been tailored personally for each of us.

Human beings are inherently creative. We are
all essentially artists and as with all
artists, tools are needed to help us create our
visions. A painters tools are his paint,
paintbrushes and paper, and a musicians tools
are his guitars, drums and pianos. One of the
greatest tools we will ever need for creating
our personal masterpiece, our Ultimate
Lifestyle, is learning the art of letting go
and moving on.

When we learn to let go and move on, we are
stepping into our faith. Not religious faith,
but faith that there are better days ahead,
more opportunities to come and more adventures
to be had. Faith that as one door closes,
others open for us, and as one chapter ends,
another begins. Faith that everything happens
for a reason even if those reasons are not
immediately evident. Letting go is trusting
this process and allowing it to eventuate by
focusing on today and continuing to dream and
working towards our future.

The first step in letting go is acknowledging
that the time has come, but this is sometimes
the hardest part of letting go because we
really do not want to acknowledge it. We feel
the guidance to move on, but our emotions and
feelings are so heavily invested that our minds
struggle with the thought and we only feel
torn, confused, anxious and sick. This is why
it takes courage to have faith, courage to move
past our fears and courage to take a
metaphorical leap of faith.

Good times come and pass, just as bad times
come and pass also, but while we want to forget
and move on from the bad times, the good times
we hang onto because we never want those times
to end. We try to artificially preserve the
good times even after they have gone stale and
putrid and this causes friction and conflict in
our lives. Life is moving but we stop moving
with it. We are clinging onto what has been and
potentially living in fear that nothing more
will come.

Often, the clearest indication that it is time
to let go, is when we experience suffering,
when things that were once so easy and natural,
no longer have that feel to them. However,
occasionally suffering is not a clue to move
on, but an opportunity for us to practice
compassion and forgiveness and to grow wiser
and stronger through the experience. So
learning when to let go and move on and when to
stay still and grow is part of life’s lessons
too.

Everyone’s life is absolutely unique to them
and so all of our experiences and perceptions
will be different. For this reason, there is
never a black and white answer for life’s
dilemmas and no one else can tell you when the
time is right for letting go and moving on,
only you can know when the time has come.

Just as we can not learn how to be happy by
reading an article, or learn how to make love
by reading a magazine column, we can not learn
how to let go and move on just by reading the
words on this page. We can be guided and
directed but it is something that we have to
learn from our own experiences and through our
own trials and errors. Remember, only through
our own experiences does true wisdom develop.

As we master the art of letting go and moving
on, we master the tools for our own lives. We
become a virtuoso at dealing with whatever life
throws our way. We learn to appreciate the good
times, and how to bid farewell with love when
the good times have passed, knowing that life
heals a broken heart and more experiences and
opportunities are to come; and we take the
lessons and just deal with the hard times
knowing that better days are ahead. We
transition and evolve through life as we are
meant to.

Ultimately life is a journey, to be experienced
and enjoyed. Sometimes we need to let go of our
own fears and insecurities to live the life of
our dreams, sometimes letting go of painful
experiences, disappointments and heartaches is
needed to open us up to new experiences and
opportunities, one day we will all need to let
go of our youth and embrace aging, and
sometimes we might have to let go of something
that we dreamed of sharing with someone just
because they let go first.

Visit Ultimate Lifestyle Project to discover
more about this contemporary philosophy for
creating modern lifestyles that reflect our
modern day world.

Letting Go And Moving On

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