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Holding on is being brave, but
letting go and moving on is often what makes us stronger and happier.
Here are ten signs it’s time to
let go:
Someone expects you to be someone you’re not. – Don’t change who you are for anyone
else. It’s wiser to lose someone over being who you are, than to
keep them by being someone you’re not. Because it’s easier to mend a
broken heart, than it is to piece together a shattered identity. It’s
easier to fill an empty space in your life where someone else used to be, than
it is to fill the empty space inside yourself where YOU used to be.
A person’s actions don’t match their words. – Everybody deserves somebody who helps them
look forward to tomorrow. If someone has the opposite effect on you,
because they are consistently inconsistent and their actions don’t match up with
their words, it’s time to let them go. It’s always better to be alone
than to be in bad company. True friendship is a promise made in the heart
– silent, unwritten, unbreakable by distance, and unchangeable by time.
Don’t listen to what people say; watch what they do. Your true friends
will slowly reveal themselves over time.
You catch yourself forcing someone to love you. – Let us keep in mind that we can’t force
anyone to love us. We shouldn’t beg someone to stay when they want to
leave. That’s what love is all about – freedom. However, the end of
love is not the end of life. It should be the beginning of an
understanding that love sometimes leaves for a reason, but never leaves without
a lesson. If someone truly loves you, they will never give you a reason
to doubt it. Anyone can come into your life and say how much they love
you, but it takes someone really special to stay in your life and prove how
much they love you. Sometimes it takes awhile to find the right person,
but the right person is always worth the wait. Read The Road Less Traveled.
An intimate relationship is based strictly on
physical attraction. – Being beautiful is more
than how many people you can get to look at you, or how others perceive you at
a single glance. It’s about what you live for. It’s about what
defines you. It’s about the depth of your heart, and what makes you
unique. It’s about being who you are and living out your life
honestly. It’s about those little quirks that make you, you. People
who are only attracted to you because of your pretty face or nice body won’t
stay by your side forever. But the people who can see how beautiful your
heart is will never leave you.
Someone continuously breaks your trust. – Love means giving someone the chance to hurt
you, but trusting them not to. When you completely trust a person,
without any doubt, you’ll automatically get one of two results – a FRIEND for
life or a LESSON for life. Either way there’s a positive outcome.
Either you confirm the fact that this person cares about you, or you get the
opportunity to weed them out of your life and make room for those who do.
In the end you’ll discover who’s fake, who’s true, and who would risk it all
for you. And trust me, some people will totally surprise you.
Someone continuously overlooks your worth. – Know your worth!
When you give yourself to someone who doesn’t respect you, you surrender pieces
of your soul that you’ll never get back. There comes a point when you
have to let go and stop chasing some people. If someone wants you in
their life, they’ll find a way to put you there. Sometimes you just need
to let go and accept the fact that they don’t care for you the way you care for
them. Let them leave your life quietly. Letting go is oftentimes
easier than holding on. We think it’s too hard to let go, until we
actually do. Then we ask ourselves, “Why didn’t I do this sooner?”
You are never given a chance to speak your mind. – Sometimes an argument saves a relationship,
whereas silence breaks it. Speak up for your heart so that you won’t have
regrets. Life is not about making others happy. Life is about being
honest and sharing your happiness with others.
You are frequently forced to sacrifice your
happiness. – If you allow people to
make more withdrawals than deposits in your life, you will be out of balance
and in the negative before you know it. Know when to close the
account. It’s always better to be alone with dignity than in a
relationship that constantly requires you to sacrifice your happiness and
self-respect. Read Stumbling on Happiness.
You truly dislike your current situation, routine,
job, etc. – It’s better to be a
failure at something you love than to succeed at doing something you
hate. Don’t let someone who gave up on their dreams talk you out of going
after yours. The best thing you can do in life is follow your
heart. Take risks. Don’t just make the safe and easy choices
because you’re afraid of what might happen. If you do, nothing will ever
happen. Chances must be taken, mistakes must be made, and lessons must be
learned. It might be an uphill climb, but when you reach that mountaintop
it will be worth every ounce of blood, sweat and tears you put into it.
You catch yourself obsessing over, and living in, the
past. – Eventually you will
overcome the heartache, and forget the reasons you cried, and who caused the
pain. Eventually you will realize that the secret to happiness and
freedom is not about control or revenge, but in letting things unfold
naturally, and learning from your experiences over the course of time.
After all, what matters most is not the first, but the final chapter of your
life, which unveils the details of how well you wrote your story. So let
go of the past, set yourself free, and open your mind to the possibility of new
relationships and priceless experiences. Read The Power of Now.
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