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On letting go.

At any moment, your situation is the way it is whether you like it or not. When you fight the truth of the way your situation is, you create a state of fear, upset, and tunnel vision. You destroy your ability to find solutions and tend to make your situation worse. To handle a situation, you need effective action, not the inner state of resisting. You remove the resisting and restore your effectiveness through a process called “Letting Go.” To see an example of letting go, find a time in your life when you actively resisted something. Then, for whatever reason, you stopped the resisting and said, “The heck with it.” You stopped fighting your situation and moved on with your life. Notice what happened the moment you did this. You got your peace of mind back. The fear and upset disappeared. You also saw everything differently. Everything looked different because the tunnel vision was gone. Instead of having 3 degrees of possibility, you now had 360 degrees. Now notice what happ...

A bard's retelling

Born in a thunderstorm She closed her eyes only to open to the death of the one who had bore her She could fight with a sword even before she could properly walk She could zap the shield and yap a competitor all alone, she had her words later She was born a fighter, evident she fought her way into the world She would fight her way through the world Her father was off into a war betrayed, to never return back She had a brother they said he fought valiantly when he finally fell rubies flew down instead of blood She had another brother  who raised her  She was not sure if he ever loved her He sold her to the highest bidder But now sure that she didn't love him, He got killed, a dying shame of molten gold She had no one else in the world left except for that proud bidder whom she learnt to love She called him her Sun and Stars Even he left her, death at her hands  There was a knight who did love her but knights are not meant to love Fittingly...