Hold On or Let Go

How hard we try to hold on.

We try to hold onto this moment, this belief, this dream, this age.

We try to hold onto this fear, too.  We believe it has kept us safe this far so we might as well keep on keepin' on.

We hold onto our friends, our social networks, our romantic partner, our parents, our images of who they are.

We hold onto our shoulds and our "this-I-know"s and our ways of brushing our teeth.

We hold onto books we'll never read and jeans we'll never fit into again.

We hold onto self-labels that we've outgrown more than those jeans.

We hold on even as the social networks disband, the jeans fray-away, this age passes and our parents pass too.

Life flows, things change.  

Hold on or let go.

You or death will eventually release your grip.

It just depends on how you want to live.

Namaste.

Comments

[Sherry Smyth]

Lisa, that image of the water dripping through is profoundly moving. We hold on, or sometimes we keep holding on to that which has already slipped away and it binds us and holds us..to what? A memory or a thought of time passed as it does. I loved these words today, these thoughts, these questions. I've thought that I have let go of much over these last few years but I think somewhere deeper within I have been holding on and it is that which is making me feel as I feel these last few months...and it's strangling, and stifling me to the point that I can't see forward. It's time to cleanse and breathe fresh air of where I am to where I need to go next. Thank you for this.

[Sue Kearney (@magnoliaswest)]

Thank you for this! This is hauntingly beautiful, and so true:

Life flows, things change.

Hold on or let go.

You or death will eventually release your grip.

It just depends on how you want to live.

Love and light,
Sue

[Indigo]

Oh Lisa.
This is beautiful.
Being, personally, in the space of having just let go big time, well, all I can say is it can be incredibly freeing and incredibly scary. Free falling. But not.
I am exercising my faith muscles like you wouldn't believe.
And that I feel is a good thing.
Despite the stuff that sucks.
Thank you for your gorgeous words.
Xoxo

[Theresa]

Very beautiful post, Lisa. I can relate to this. I DO tend to hold on because it is very hard letting go. But sometimes it is necessary to let go in order to grow. Thank you. :)