“Finish each day and be done with it. You have done what you could (or at least what you did). Some blunders and a few absurdities may have crept in; release them … Tomorrow is a new day. You shall begin it serenely, with far too much gratitude & Loving resolve to be encumbered by your old nonsense.” ~ inspired by Ralph W. Emerson

Lots of folks are big into “letting go” these days — letting go of “unhealthy people” by condemning them, letting go of “unhealthy ideas” by ridiculing them, letting go of “unhealthy behaviors” by ignoring them.

And yet, as those who have tried these futile methods already know, this mentality simply does not work.

Dismissing one “unhealthy person” from your life only opens the door for another to enter. Rejecting one “unhealthy idea” from your mind only allows the next one to occupy your attention. Looking away from another’s “unhealthy behavior” only encourages that person to find more painful ways to manifest the same.

In-deed, as long as we choose the Road of Callousness — the road of “healthy boundaries” & “self help” & “tough love”, there will be no escape from darkness & suffering.

No, my Friends, until we choose to set our True Selves free — our Kind Selves, our Caring Selves, our Humble & Selfless Serving Selves — nothing will ever “get better” for us or those around us.

Consider gently … Enact courageously.

Filed under: Wisdoms from the Journey by Scaughdt