This concept of letting go is a really fascinating one. It is said that by letting go and not holding on to something or someone, you gain much more than you had before. This requires a certain amount of trust in something outside yourself – depending on the situation, that trust is easier or harder to accept. But as long as the whole thing stays a concept – just a theory, attaining that trust is really hard. Even if you experienced it a few times – and were positively suprised that it actually worked – that trust doesn’t come naturally. Is that something that we never had or has our current way of living and the way we and our parents and grandparents trained each new generation to see the world forced us to unlearn that trust?
Beginnings…
Every story has its beginning somewhere. But there is seldom one definite place and time. Since all our lives are intricately interwoven, there are no real beginnings, are there? So this first post of my new blog is also not a real beginning, but a natural result of everything and everyone that came before. A next step. One of my previous ones was to quit my job, uproot my life and take a timeout from society. I moved back home, and tried to find out what I really like to do, what excites me. My life’s purpose. By now, society has caught up with me – much sooner than I’d expected. But I’m still looking, wandering, watching the trees grow, even though they stand still. Like a little child, amazed by every new thing life has to offer. But in a way I feel like that is also part of my purpose…