2007-11-26 13:26:57 · 15 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
Funny. I guess my take on it is that sometimes we overvalue things, and refuse to let go of them for sentimental reasons. I remember a story about a guy with a bag, who put everything interesting in the bag. Eventually he couldn't move for the weight of the bag.
2007-11-26 13:40:23 · update #1
You have to let it go to get an outside perspective on things.
I have done such a thing from time to time so I can reflect. More often than not I found myself looking at said thing and realizing it was not the same as I envisioned while having it.
It sucks because most of the time it requires you to go through the grieving process twice. Once while letting go and another time while realizing it never was, to begin with.
Footnote: I so would love just to sit and have coffee with you. :)
2007-11-27 01:32:29 · answer #1 · answered by queen of snarky-yack again 4 · 2⤊ 0⤋
I tried to hold on to my first wife because I thought thee was something sacrosanct about the wedding vows and I believed them. When I finally realized I couldn't force the issue, I agreed to a divorce. I immediately began to feel better with the conviction that letting her go was the right thing. Two years later, she wanted to get back together, but by then I was sober (another letting go) and I have never been drunk enough to marry the same woman twice.
2007-11-26 21:46:27 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
If it was worth holding on to then you will 1) chase after it or 2) it will come back to you. That is what I have always been told. Also, if it was truly worth the experience, you will not take it for granted the next time around, which is something that most everyone falls victim to at one point in their lives.
2007-11-26 21:31:22 · answer #3 · answered by Megs 4 · 3⤊ 0⤋
To Me it is Just a Quote that a Man or Woman made up, in hopes it would get posted on cards and on the internet and Would be said alot.
But it some ways its true.
Muh gurl I had a hard time being sensitive towards her, and she ended up having enough with me being a butthole, I lost her and when I did I realized how much I cared about her, We made up and Now My relationship with her is stronger.
2007-11-26 21:36:54 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
It refers, in its own way, to the Buddhist concept of impermanence; nothing ever really "belongs" to us; the only attachment is the value of emotion and sentiment we have invested, and is represented by, that object, person, or situation.
People have a difficult time recognizing this: the focus is on the object/person/situation itself, rather than on our own emotional tie that is represented by it. The only thing we have in life--and even this is not permanent and is daily in decline--is the skin we walk in.
In it's own way, when we let go, metaphorically, of course, of the one thing we are focusing on so intensely, the rest of all that is in the Universe becomes our possession. We are liberated to experience the whole, when we let go of the few.
Rather Buddhist-y talk for Jack, lol! ;)
2007-11-26 22:37:42 · answer #5 · answered by Jack B, goodbye, Yahoo! 6 · 7⤊ 0⤋
to me this statement means, that you can never really know the value of what you posses until you've lost it, givin it away, or had it taken from you. only in the absent space can you truly know the value of what you posses. it is a simple truth. Most people take for granted what is right in front of them, but never really know what its true worth is, sometimes its worth more than could be known, but most often worth is given to THINGS that never earned the respect to be called worthy....
2007-11-26 21:34:54 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋
for me it's almost like the saying that says, you don't know what you have until you lose it.
Sometimes when you are confused about someone and don't know how you feel, letting it go will make you see if you truly love that person and if they truly love you.
Time can be our best friend in these situations or our greatest enemy, depending on what side we're standing.
2007-11-26 21:36:36 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 3⤊ 0⤋
I don't know if I agree with that statement. I wouldn't ever let something/someone go if I thought there was a possibility it was something worth holding on to.
2007-11-26 21:36:09 · answer #8 · answered by Linz VT•AM 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
when it is the important things that are in your life.
you have to release it to get it.
love, Compassion. understanding, tolerance, respect, and many of the things that really matter.
only truly come to those that are willing to release them first.
2007-11-26 22:57:01 · answer #9 · answered by Hannah's Grandpa 7 · 4⤊ 0⤋
To me it means: I want out, but I want the option to come back if I change my mind.
2007-11-26 21:32:55 · answer #10 · answered by Ruth 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋