We waste so much of ourselves on things that don't matter and we don't realize this until we face the end of our lives, it is usually only then that we make decisions of what we let go and of what we hang onto.
We think about the things we wish we had done differently.
and at the end , none of this is what really matters in what we want..........
So....starting now......
1. Stop caring about always being right. Truth does matter, but not when small arguments create large silences and robs you of your peace.
2. Stop caring about being understood. Do not exhaust your energy on people who form wrong opinions of you.
3. Stop caring about how your body looks. Don't torture yourself over on whether you look acceptable to others.
4. Stop caring about keeping up with world topics. Not everything requires your attention and not everything is urgent. Pick what you care about and pay attention to that and let the rest go.
5. Stop caring about old grudges. Don't hang on to resentments. Get rid of mental lists of the wrongs people have done to you in the past. Forgive and let go.
6. Stop caring about what your adult children think of your choices. You have raised your children, sacrificed for them, worried for them. They are now grown, and maybe sometimes they try to control your choices of out of worry and concern for your well being. You can still make your own judgement about your own life.
6. Stop caring about not being productive. You have worked, you have lived, it is okay to rest.
All in all, stop caring too much for the wrong things for too long, giving precious energy to battles that do not matter,
to appearances that fade, to grudges that only poison ourselves,
to opinions of people who barely know us,
to an endless treadmill of keeping up with current issues, feeling guilty for not being productive.......
At the end, we really want peace, to have those we love around us, to know that our life meant something to someone and to not feel that we had wasted it.
We do not have to wait until we are dying to start letting go.
Don't waste your energy, your attention, and your heart to that which is going to something that does not deserve it.
Let it go, stop caring about it, save yourself for the things that will still matter in the end.
Life is short.
***(this is a narrative of a video of an elderly lady whose thoughts touched my thinking about how I want to live the rest of my life)
I hope you find this inspiring on how you want to spend the last precious years of your life.
