I stumbled upon this quote from Winnie The Pooh, "Life is a journey to be experienced, not a problem to be solved," and I've been thinking about it ever since because it hit so close to home for me. I know what its like to be afraid to let go and let things be, I've been afraid to let go for such a long time. I had all these rigid rules for myself, things that i wouldnt dare try to do, out of fear that things wouldn't work out.
But life is so funny, i mean, extremely funny, it will literally force you to have to face the very things you've been afraid to face and are running from. So why worry when it will work out in the end just as it should? Life is a journey because it goes on, it's a journey because its beautiful and it takes you places. As you go along, you experience different things that bring joy, sorrow, pain and comfort but if you learn to accept these different experiences as they come and look for the positives in each situation you can experience so much growth.
Sometimes we just want to fix things, we dont want to go through hard times, we dont want things to fall apart because we fear they'll never be beautiful again. Sometimes no matter how hard we try, we just can't seem to keep it together, it just won't work. Could it be that we should just let it be? Maybe we need to focus on something else? Life is so interesting because that thing we've been trying to hold together, it will eventually work itself out. We don't need to fix every little thing, in fact we cant fix everything. We need to learn to let go and look for the beauty in what is and stop killing ourselves over the what ifs.
Fasten your seatbelts, bring those windows down and let the wind kiss your face as you embark on this journey called life.
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