I’m smart enough to know that when I fall, I fall hard because I give
everything 100%, including love. Which is why I never told you no, never
gave up when you disappeared for weeks at a time, and never deleted
your number even though I probably should have after you rejected every
attempt I made to see you before midnight. But I’m also strong, and a
strong, smart girl is a lethal combination. I convinced myself I was
strong enough not to need your constant presence, and somewhere in the
process of talking myself into letting myself love you, this combination
of strong and smart that you were supposed to respect and admire
backfired and took me down.
Letting go doesn't mean we don't care. Letting go doesn't mean we shut down. Letting go means we stop trying to force outcomes and make people behave. It means we give up resistance to the way things are, for the moment. It means we stop trying to do the impossible - controlling that which we cannot - and instead, focus on what is possible.