learning how to let go

[emchy]

i think everything happens to serve a purpose. i need to learn not to care as much if i am misunderstood. i can explain myself. my motivations. my care. until i am blue in the face. but in the end people believe the narratives that they are writing in their heads. whether they are accurate about the truth or reality of a situation, we all make our own truth. and so i let go. because sometimes people just don't get it. no matter how many times you tell them. you can tear your heart open and show them the guts and still they're convinced that you're hiding secret meanies behind the valves, veins and arteries. so i am trying to learn to let go. it makes me sad. but... it's something i keep needing to learn. here we are at lesson # 3598. maybe this time it will stick.

Comments

[nerak-g.livejournal.com]

OMG, you just articulated so much there...SO much of my experience this last year. Or more.
yeah.

[glamtasm.livejournal.com]

Truth all that. People, even sane, intelligent ones, *hear* through their own filters, which have little to do with the person speaking the words, and so meaning, regardless of how seemingly clear, becomes distorted.

But you can never give up hope that somehow, at some point, the purity of the words and the meaning will get through.

[cindymonkey.livejournal.com]

yea - it's so painful to know that someone has the story wrong. but then again, how they're experiencing it is their truth to some degree, regardless of the intention.

[cindymonkey.livejournal.com]

not give up hope, but stop expending energy convincing someone who listen... that is my struggle.