Just Let it Go

I believe that people just need to relax. Or in other words I think that sometimes people overreact to things, whether they know it or not, and that can have monstrous consequences. It can make people sad, self conscious stressed, worried and numerous other things. Not to mention the affect you would have on other people.

Up until recently I was “In a bad place” for lack of a better term. Life seemed like a big dark ocean, and I was a bobbing up and down in it aimlessly. Every time I would gasp for air a wall of murky salt water would crash over me and send me back under the surface into its cold clutches. Okay, maybe that’s a little over dramatic, but it’s also a good simile/metaphor, and it does describe what my slightly over dramatic mind was feeling at the time.

Then one day I just snapped out of it, in a way It felt like having a bucket of ice water dumped on my head to extract me from a very deep sleep. Or like being suddenly and unexpectedly pulled out of a comatose state. Only it wasn’t exactly that instantaneous , I’ll admit that it did take a lot of convincing. But I just decided I wasn’t going to get stressed over everything. I had to except the imperfections in my life for what they were and move on. I couldn’t keep worrying over them because worrying never helped anyone, and it especially wasn’t helping me. So I stopped.

I stopped worrying and getting stressed, and in some ways I stopped caring. Well, I stopped caring too much. You can’t obsess over things, especially things that in the end don’t really matter all that much. You just have to let it go and move on.

Okay, I know that if you where to go up to someone who was stressing out or worrying about something and said “Just let it go” you might not get the best response. Because people have an agonizing fear “just letting go” For the basic reason that their lives have started to revolve around that thing, or things for that matter, for so long that letting it go almost seems impossible.

But in reality, the best thing you can do is just relax and accept whatever it is for itself. In most cases you can’t change it so why spend all of your time and energy worrying over it?

So that is what I believe. It might be confusing to you, but what can i say, the world is a confusing place with confusing things in it. And you can’t fix what you can’t fix and you can’t change things that are unchangeable; you just have to accept them.