Let Go c.2003 Deborah L. Hord October 20, 2007
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Let Go
c.2003 Deborah L. Hord
From very early childhood, there’s a phrase that all of us hear, “What will you be when you grow up?” We hear it year after year. And when we grow up, we know better. But, we ask the very same thing. “What will you be when you grow up? What will the future bring?” . We hear it often as children. It burns itself into our minds. And, when we’re adults we remember. It’s a phrase we can’t leave behind. Doctors and lawyers and firemen, policemen and mommies and dads, Nurses and teachers and cowboys, were those all the choices we had? . One thing that they never did tell us, yet oh so important to know, It’s important to plan as well as you can, but you also just have to let go. . From very early childhood, we’re asked what we’re going to be. That’s all well and good. I suppose that we should, but a big piece is missing for me. The focus is all on the title. Where’s the focus on who we become, Compassionate, caring, committed to sharing, tremendous respect for each one? . One thing that they never did tell us, yet oh so important to know, It’s important to plan as well as you can, but you also just have to let go. . There’s so much information we never will know, and so many things are beyond our control. It’s good to look forward and work out a plan, but much of what happens is out of our hands. . We’ve moved beyond our childhoods, yet most of us have said, “I don’t know what I’ll be when I grow up.” We still carry that thought in our heads.
And, we measure our worth by profession instead of by who we’ve become. We need to remember that being ourselves is the best way to be someone. . One thing that they never did tell us, yet oh so important to know, It’s important to plan as well as you can, but you also just have to let go. One thing that they never did tell us, yet oh so important to know, It’s important to plan as well as you can, but you also just have to let go.
