Love is letting go … (11/03/11)
“I try … I fail.
I try again … I fail again.
I try harder … I fail even worse.
I am determined to see Love “win”, so I try again … I fail spectacularly.
I let go of all my desires … I simply Love for Love’s sake …
… … & I succeed.” ~ inspired by Samuel Beckett
I have been trying so hard to “Love correctly” lately. I have been striving so hard to “do it right” and “make a difference” and “be good enough”. Over & over I have tried — and over & over I have failed.
And yet I realize today that it was not me who failed. It was not my “wrong actions” that led to disaster. Rather, it was my striving that ensured my defeat. I was failing because I wasn’t actually Loving at all. Indeed, it is impossible for us to truly Love another while laboring for a particular outcome that we deem to be “better” or “best” for them.
In the end, our task is not to have Love blossom a certain way or even to help another to understand Love as we know it. Our calling — nay our privilege — is simply to Care, without any hope or agenda at all.
It is our privilege, quite simply, to simply Love.
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