Letting Go

~ Gottfried

One of the simplest ways to stay happy is letting go of the things that make you sad. Laugh when you can, apologize when you should, and let go of what you can’t change. Letting go does not mean you stop caring. It means you stop trying to force others to. 

You can’t reach for anything new if your hands are still full of yesterday’s junk. Moving on is hard. But the possibilities that letting go reveals are very thrilling. Accept what is. Let go of what was. Have faith in what will be. Bite the hand that fed you. 

If you love a friend, let them go. If they come back with a latte, it was meant to be. I now realize that instead of saying that I want to “grow” into my best self, I should say I want to “reduce” into my best self. I have no idea what that means but it sounds cool so you’ll make do. 

Sometimes being a friend means mastering the art of timing. There is a time for silence. A time to let go and allow people hurl themselves into their own destiny. And a time to pick up the pieces when it’s all over. It’s interesting to me that this generation can’t tell time on an analog clock. 

The hardest part about letting go is finally realizing that there wasn’t much left to hold on to. A couple of years ago, my therapist told me I had problems letting go of the past. She was wrong. Go easy on yourself. Whatever you do today, let it be enough. 

I don’t care about losing people that don’t wanna be in my life anymore. I’ve lost people who mean the world to me and I’m still doing just fine. At least that’s the lie I tell myself every night. If you gotta force it, just leave it alone. Relationships, friendships, jokes, ponytails…

Just let go of your ego

©️ Gottfried. All rights reserved

46 thoughts on “Letting Go”

  1. “Let it go, let it go
    Can’t hold it back anymore
    Let it go, let it go
    Turn away and slam the door
    I don’t care what they’re going to say
    Let the storm rage on
    The cold never bothered me anyway”

    Timely Topic “Letting it Go” Mr Gottfried
    As in one of the First Videos my Wife Took
    of me For the Soon to Come Celebration of
    21,000 Miles of Public Dance Edging That Way

    Just By Synchronicity
    In ACausal Connecting
    Principle Way of Only

    Meaningful Separate Events to me
    in Life Yes the Ice Princess was on
    A Poster From the Movie ‘Frozen’

    Famous for that ‘Let it Go’ ‘Ear Worm Song”

    Yes in the Foreground Through the Video in “Ross
    Dress For Less” in the Black Friday Weekend Sunday
    Shopping Crowd

    In the Mall For
    Best Low

    Price Deals

    Dear Lord the
    Greeter at the Door
    Who Says “Welcome to Ross”

    Had to Wear Literally A Bullet Proof
    Vest Yes Shopping is Serious Life or

    Death Stuff in the United States Folks

    Will Practically Sell their Soul And Vote for
    A Most Despicable Leader in Minion Way if they

    Think the

    Price of Gas
    Might Go Down
    10 Percent Not Understanding
    That 20 Percent Tariffs on Other Countries

    Means Close to an Increase of Goods and
    Accompanying Greater Inflation to Pay Hell For Next

    It’s True Not Everyone Is Well Versed in Real Economic

    Theory
    in the United
    States Something
    About the Real Science
    Assessed Attention Span
    On Average of Less That A Real
    Gold Fish Yes God Yes Less than 3 Seconds

    About the Time it Takes to Drop a Turkey Leg
    on the Floor at The Big Shin Dig at Thanksgiving

    And Feel Safe
    Enough to Eat
    it Off the Floor
    After 40 Or So
    Family Members
    Track through the Kitchen Hehe

    Our Modern World is Truly A Bit Too Complex
    For Most Folks to Consume in Less than 3 Seconds for Real

    Obviously I Never End With Laser Focus in Dance And Song All

    F
    iN A
    Day in A Life
    Day in A Life

    All F iN Year Long
    Even When i Dream at Night

    Yep i Let ADHD Go and i Never

    Say Hello to it Ever Again Just

    Like the ‘Road
    Runner’

    Wile E Coyote
    or Even AI Will
    Never Catch Up

    to the “Full Freddy Free Loader’ of What i Do”

    Yet on a More Serious Note Mr. Gottfried God Yes

    Excellent Advice to ‘Let Go of Ego’ Just Be Naked
    Enough Whole Complete let Others Name what

    You Do However they Wanna Do When Ya

    Fly No Matter if it is A Dance 1 Inch off the

    Ground or Space Boy Going to Mars

    With His Orange GRuMP Pal

    You Are Still Flying
    High Or Low

    Still Flying

    And By God That
    Is Enough Particularly
    On the Only Planet We
    Are Actually Evolved on to Literally Exist…

    I Can’t Expect Someone With a Small View

    With No ‘OverView Effect’ In Big Picture Way

    To Understand

    So Yes i Let
    That Go

    Too And

    Continue to
    Dance And Sing
    As Free As Butterflies

    Still Migrate Across

    The World With Wings With No Ego

    And
    SMiLes

    For What
    Flutters

    Hearts

    in ‘Fairer
    Ways’ of Being too hehe…
    It’s True i Have A Rather

    Strong Libido

    too Haha in
    Reference

    to the ‘Other Post’…

    I do my Best to Let that Go too

    Most of the “Day in A Life” At least With SMiles hehe..:)

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      1. iNDeeD to Sing is to Change The World
        Mr Gottfried At Least the World Within

        As Both ‘Frozen’ by the ‘Ice Princess’
        And ‘Madonna’ in the United States

        Both Relate If Only
        Stone Cold HeARTS

        Could Melt Oh How

        Different this World Will Soulfully
        Spirit Be Ah Yes A Christmas Tree We

        All Year Around BRinG So Very Colorful

        Up With New Colors to LiGHT And Be
        in Notes of MuSiC Singing and Moves
        of Dance So Free Oh How A HeART Will

        Melt and Become
        Fluid to Spread

        For All Hehe

        in my Case
        A Real TSuNaMi

        Of Whatever May
        Come Next True California
        Escaped the Other one today

        Yet Indeed i Will Still Dance and
        Sing Free ThiS WaY Around a Whole

        Globe and Yes Mr Gottfried You are
        Always Welcome to Join in Yes in Your

        Own Style

        Free of
        Dance
        And Song
        Still To Come…

        WHere Every Night
        And Day Is Divine Yet

        True i Can’t Hit those
        High Notes Like ‘Tori Kelly’

        WHere it sends Chills Up and
        Down Our Spines and Even For

        Those Who Don’t Believe They

        May Feel
        THeiR
        HeARTS
        Both Melting
        And Beating Deep Within

        With
        SMiLes

        RiSinG

        HiGHeR

        Hehe Plays
        Okay With me

        So Far At Least…

        It’s Not Enough to Hear
        A Message to Do IT Makes it Real Now

        New Without Even Mending
        Or Selling Global Shoes

        No Times Distances
        Spaces Or Matters of

        Names LoVE iN Peace
        Dances And Sings Free

        Within When Real For All
        Giving Sharing Caring Healing

        With Most
        Respect
        Least Harm

        With JoY oF LiGHT
        Of Loving All that is
        DarK Thru LiGHT Giving

        It Our Best

        Do Once

        Again With
        SMiLes Failing Forward at least

        True Mr Gottfried i Could Go on Forever newly now
        to Hit that Last Note Tori Kelly BRings I’ll Never Give UP…

        Hehe to Be Clear
        This New Song

        And Old Song
        Is “Oh Holy Night” Sung
        (Looking at Apple Watch Seeing
        Just Another Night Now in
        the Life of December 5th
        And the Morning of the
        6th in Your Nigeria)
        By Tori Kelly as Usual

        All For Free on YouTube

        Connecting Us All in Dance And Song
        And
        Etcetera
        of Course…

        True As Usual
        I Liberally Paraphrase

        All the
        Lyrics Again..:)

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  2. Lovely read on a lovely morning🥰

    My takeaway: If I have to force someone to care about me, I just gotta let them go.

    Thanks Mr Gottfried☀️

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  3. “If you love a friend, let them go. If they come back with a latte, it was meant to be.”

    I’ll probably come back 6 months later not because it was meant to be but because I’m finally realizing we you’re gone.

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  5. “There is a time for silence. A time to let go and allow people hurl themselves into their own destiny.”

    This is so real and a lot of people don’t understand that fact.

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