Letting Go

Have you ever wondered why you always end up getting hurt?  Have you ever wondered what you have done to deserve the constant lack of respect for you and your feelings?  Have you ever wondered why your kind and caring approach to people isn’t always reciprocated?

I have discovered the answer…in most cases, it is because people only treat you the way that you allow them to.  We have a lot more control than we choose to realize over the kinds of feelings that would cause one to pose the questions listed above.  We are not as helpless and powerless as we think we are.  As Eleanor Roosevelt once said, “No one can make you feel inferior without your consent.”

The problem is we hold onto who that person was or who we want them to be.  We make excuses for their behavior.  It takes two people to have a friendship or be in a relationship and one person cannot carry that weight.  It’s simply impossible.  In doing so, it is inevitable that we experience the hurt, disrespect and lack of reciprocity.  Is it really worth it?  Life is too short to try to change someone that you know doesn’t want to change.  What you can change is them being in your life.  Of course, this is much easier said than done.  Letting go is one of the hardest things we face in life.  However, time is one of the most unforgiving things.  Once it’s gone, you can never get it back.  So ask yourself, are you investing your time in the actual person or who they used to be or who they have the potential to be?

Always remember, you are wonderful and amazing!  Anyone should be happy to share a friendship or relationship with you and if they choose not to, then that is their loss.  You deserve nothing less than the best.