One very good thing with WhatsApp is that one gets unsolicited advice with ardour. You get up in the morning and friends across groups give you the daily dose of how to live a happy, fulfilling and contented life. I do not grudge these messages, at times they are worth pondering upon and if nothing else, they usually are a good read. Besides the best that one can do with an advice is to pass it on, though I’m not that type and sharing and forwarding messages is something that calls for too much effort on my part.
Honestly, though many a friends of mine have forwarded or sent me messages in person which have been what I most needed at that time and I’m grateful to these dear friends for sending those messages my way. Some time back a very spiritual Inner Wheel friend of mine sent me this message, “Never invest too much emotion in one thing because you will just end up hurting yourself.”
To me it means that if one invests too much emotion into something, it is difficult to let go which is the root of all the hurt caused. But if one is ready to let go willingly, would it really make much of a difference?
Yes, it is never too easy to let go. There is way too much time, effort, and hard work that goes into building a relationship or achieve what one aspires for. One eats, drinks, breathes, and keeps nurturing a dream and builds a lifetime of memories, and experiences around it and then comes a time when you just have to let it go. It is at times like these when I feel,

Life is trying to get out of the abyss between two anthills of achievement.

I am learning to see growth in letting go. It’s like once a skill is achieved we do not go on learning it. One can keep trying to perfect it or go on to learn another skill. We do not let go of it rather we outgrow it and move on. Once a baby learns to roll over, she moves on to focus on getting up, then walking. She doesn’t sit after one achievement rather she forgets all about the efforts she put in and moves on to concentrate on the next task. It is like the baby that one needs to take steps in learning to let go. Keep the fond memories, like the old dress in which you looked the best but can’t get into since you have outgrown it. Revisit them if you wish but don’t get too attached, be happy that it happened and move on. Remember a part of it always stays with you in some way or the other, cherish it.
Today, I’m preparing myself to let go of Shubham from under my wings to find his own toehold. I have faith that he will climb great heights and be able to provide platforms to youngsters like him one day. He will grow big and strong but for that I’ll have to let him go to face his obstacles and win them over. As I do so, I take another baby step in the direction of letting go. And yes! It is painful but we do not have an option, do we?