Learnt a very interesting lesson. If we clench our fist tightly for a few seconds it does not hurt. If we keep it clenched for a few minutes it makes you feel a little uneasy. Imagine holding it like this for days, months or years. Imagine the plight of your hand! This is what we do about many things in life. Relationships when held on momentarily strengthens it, then freedom should take over. Or else it starts hurting like the closed fist held for too long! Let GO!
Open your fingers and feel the freedom. Holding back can cause accumulation of a lot of stress, pain, expectations and what not. When things hurt in any aspect of life, its time to let go! Its time to move on. Its seems so simple. Simple things are so difficult to follow. We tend to accumulate a of stuff like old letters, cards, broken pieces of porcelain, clothes.. those cupboards, drawers full of these "memorabilia". Keeps accumulating, denying the "present"(today) a chance of existence in your life! You tend to keep living either in the past, in memories or in future,in dreams. There are people and feelings who need to be attended to, who are happily forgotten by us. Probably thats what "Get a life!" is all about...
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when Alfred Hitchcock was a kid, he did some mischief and his dad punished him by "reporting" him to a cop friend of his. the cop didn't punish him just made him sit at his office for 15 minutes. Alfred mentions them as the scariest 15 minutes of his life.
This is the incident that he mentioned when he explains his famouse quote "There is no fear in the bang, only in anticipation of it". Now, I am not sure about details, but the generic idea is that he learnt a lesson in fear that day.
Ever wondered what if he had let go of that fear?
This is one art that no artist knows, for not letting go is the fountainhead of all art and creativity and that expression of creativity is what draws a line between great art and a masterpiece.
so you can choose to learn the art of letting go all that, or learn to turn all that into art by not letting go.
Happy New Year.
[requiem]
Thanks for the comment Requiem..So nicely put!(as always) You mean if it hurts, let it...out of all the pain comes great pieces of art...I now feel to be an artist you either need to go thru hell or you become one after going thru it all :)
All I know is there is only so much I can go thru...After which I become numb..Ya I may never be(or want to be) a creator of any masterpiece! :)..Can one have a dual existence,as in let go some...keep some?
Happy new year to you too..
There was a movie called Cocktail starring Tom Cruise. It had a line... "each one of us has a genius within us, one thing that we can do better than anyone else, one thing we were meant to do... all we need to do is figure out what our genius is"
So, all you gotta do is figure that out and you too will have your own masterpiece.
One more thing, someone else [can't recall who, some top notch Jack Welch type honcho] once said, "Only thing worse than not finding your genius, is finding it and letting it go to waste."
Here's hoping you find yours in this new year.
requiem.
I find that I cud not have agreed more on something when I see your comment!
I seem to be at the most confused stage of my life(or that is what I keep feeling all the time). This is the nicest wish I could have asked for. Thank you. Wishing you too find yours(why do I feel you already have!) and not let it go waste..
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