When you feel the need to just let go.

Just let it go already.

Wasting my breath on people/things/situations/events that are better left in the past isn't worth it to me. What I have right here, right now is like gold, platinum, the most perfect diamond, and will be cherished like a delicate petal of the most rare kind of flower, and will never be taken for granted. I write this blog because it means something to me to share when I find value in the simple things in life. To find understanding in the most difficult situations and to grow through tragedy, heartache, love and love lost. I won't be made to feel less of a person, I won't be brought down to the levels of pettiness and ignorance. I know who I am. It's taken me a journey to get here, but here I am, and I continue forward with my head up, my eyes open and my heart free. 

I let go of others venom, hate, lies and anger, it is theirs to behold, and I am free of it because I choose to be. I do not believe in violence, but I believe in self defense. If I have wronged people, hurt people, made them feel less human, made them feel devalued, if I have done any of these things, then I am sorry that I would have done so. If it was merely the actions of others that brought it upon themselves, then I have no place there. Whatever actions I have taken against, or lack there of, I take full responsibility for. Whether I intentionally or unintentionally hurt the ones I cared about, it was never my intention. 

“The evil that is in the world almost always comes of ignorance, and good intentions may do as much harm as malevolence if they lack understanding.”

Albert Camus

In one thing I lack understanding; I cannot fathom the malicious intent to hurt, mame, kill, harm, obliterate another... until I have seen the necessity of it through the evils of this world. I am not reconciled that an eye for an eye should stand firm against those that do malicious intent to others. And if I see this as a way to live, then I too must and will live by this. For what goes around comes around, and karma, while not inherently good or evil, will certainly take it's measure of you and me. For what we fathom and create, so we receive. What we put out in the world, we will certainly obtain. So I take the words that are thrown at me and I turn the other cheek. I do not flinch. I do not waver. I stand firm. Do your worst, and should I crumble and you feel victorious, then it was meant to be.

“I may not have gone where I intended to go, but I think I have ended up where I intended to be.”

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