Lesson 1 - Letting Go

Ok so I haven't quite mastered this one yet, I don't think any of us ever will, but I've gotten pretty good at it early on in my life. So much of our lives are about letting things go, and the more gracefully we can do it, the better. By the time I was 22, I was engaged to my perfect man (or at least he seemed like it to me at the time). I could see my entire life laid out in front of me, and it was my dream, it was perfect, it was what I had wanted since I was a child. The problem with that? My dream for my future rested in the hands of someone else. And when they left, they took my dream with them... and I was lost. That breakup was by no means my first brush with learning to let go of something, and it wouldn't be my last, but it was a turning point for me. In fact, it took years before I actually did finally let it go, and when I did.... everything changed. The way I look at the world is different, and I have learning to let go to thank for that. Sometimes, when we are going through something that feels completely tragic at the time... we don't see it, but those moments end up being our most valuable blessings.