The Beauty of Letting Go
It's another rainy day in Copenhagen. A gloomy day with the thick clouds hiding the Sun, would reflect most everyone's mood. But I find release in the downpour, as if the rain is washing away the bad denouement of the past few weeks.
Taking a walk from the city center last saturday, alone half of the way, I began to realize that I was not as bound to these people as I had seen myself to be. I didn't have to find my friends in them nor expect anymore than common courtesy. I felt relief, knowing that I didn't have to be with anybody all the time to enjoy life.
Being with yourself, rather than being alone, is something I had always believed in before. Somewhere along the way, I lost that in me, among other things. But I'm starting to relearn that the "I" is enough.
Taking a walk from the city center last saturday, alone half of the way, I began to realize that I was not as bound to these people as I had seen myself to be. I didn't have to find my friends in them nor expect anymore than common courtesy. I felt relief, knowing that I didn't have to be with anybody all the time to enjoy life.
Being with yourself, rather than being alone, is something I had always believed in before. Somewhere along the way, I lost that in me, among other things. But I'm starting to relearn that the "I" is enough.
posted by JA | 8:18 AM
2 Comments:
Stumbled across this blog by accident looking for a different one. So you're an ex-pat too? I know what you mean about forks in the road. Leaving the US was the right thing to do, I think, but I keep asking myself, what would that other fork have looked like? And yes, your roundabout analogy is right, you just end up being faced with the same choices wearing new disguises.
Yeah I heard it's almost the same as last year Kareen. Don't worry, we share your sentiments, and some of the burden too... it's not actually second Paradise here...
Hi Cara, thanks for the appreciation... Not a lot of people take my writing the way Kareen, Lily, Jeff and now you see it... Sometimes they say it's too depressing and most of the time they tell me to say positive things. Sheesh! In this modern world some people still want to censor your thoughts...
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