Today was jammed packed busy and tomorrow will be no different. My office is handling a large loss job site and it's all hands on deck until Next Thursday (excluding Sunday). I'm beat down, worn out but I still managed to learn something. Sometimes trying to help someone else, being there no matter what, through everything, just hinders you from exactly what you're attempting to do/help. And in that unyielding help you end up sacrificing things of yourself. Maybe the real hard part out of situations like this is letting go and hoping that they will remember what you said and will want to make themselves be the best they can. Letting go and knowing that they might not. It's letting go of the control and watching them try on their own for better or worse. But you can't sit there enabling or talking until you're blue in the face. You have to know that trying too hard backfires and the people who want to be better will eventually be better and you will FEEL better once you let go of those things that are not at all in your control or power. The only savior is yourself. Your friends are angels there to cheer you on.
I'm 4 for 4 today! Aching, exhausted, half hope and half resignation - signing off and going to bed.
Before I do this came to mind today:
“At some point, you gotta let go, and sit still, and allow contentment to come to you.”
― Elizabeth Gilbert, Eat, Pray, Love
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