Lighter Load

This is in response in an email I recently received:

This year, oh girl has it been one. I'm a totally different woman than I was this time last year. Hell, I'm a totally different woman than I was 8 months ago. This year has been a year of letting go. Letting go after letting go after letting go. What I have learned is very simple, short and to the point. I've learned that letting go makes you lighter and free. I have never felt more free in my life than I do right now. 

I thought I needed to hold onto everything, have control over everything in order for it to work in my favor, in order for it to turn out right but this year has proved me other wise. This year has shown me how freeing and beautiful letting go is, that half the reason I've been holding on were lies.

 I realized I made letting go a bigger monster than it really is. It's been like a tiger racing after me. I've run and run and run. Finally, I couldn't run any further. I lost all energy and fell to my knees. I sat there shaking, frozen, because the tiger was finally going to get me, it finally won. But to my surprise, when the tiger approached me it had no teeth and no claws. All it could do was roar and walk around me. It was never meant to hurt me.

That's what I've learned. I've learned that letting go was never meant to hurt us. The only purpose it serves is to give us a lighter load so that we can fly. 

At a time in the year to reflect what I'm thankful for, I can't help but to be overwhelmed with gratitude for the lighter load I'm walking around with these days.