Late Night Realizations

Sometimes it’s just about knowing yourself. Nothing else, just yourself. When faced with a really difficult question you only have to turn inward. When you don’t know where else to turn, or what to do; how to get through a situation or get over something. You have to know yourself. You have to know what you can handle, what you can’t. What you’re willing to sacrifice, and what you’re not. What you’re willing to survive, and what you simply can’t. You have to know what makes you happy, truly happy, like what makes your heart sing and warms your soul. We tend to think that being strong means surviving a situation and living to tell about it, or toughing out the hard times, or some think they are finding strength in control. One of the hardest lessons I’ve ever had to learn, and still struggle with, is that the more you fight to control a situation the more that situation is really controlling you. I think sometimes real strength comes in letting go. It comes in knowing when enough is enough; knowing when the pain starts to outweigh the good. Some of us are afraid to give up, to throw in the towel; we tend to think that’s a sign of weakness or that we’ve failed. But what I think is that’s where the real strength lies… not just knowing when to let go, but being able to.