It’s Time To Let Go

Oct. 14, 2011

By Kat George info

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It’s time to Let Go. I know: it’s scary right? I’m about to Let Go too, so let’s just do it together and maybe the whole process will be easier on us both. No, no, you can’t stay, it really is time to walk away — you’ve been holding on for too long now, and so have I. I know it’s simpler this way — just, shhhh, OK, listen to me — great now I lost my train of thought…

What I’m trying to say is that whatever you’re holding on to is holding you back, and it’s come to the point where you can’t hold on any longer. You’re like the picture of that adorable kitten on the string saying “hang in there!” except that you’ve been hanging for so long your paws are bloodied and gravity has dislocated your arm sockets. You’re a rag doll, a limp and impotent version of what you need to be, so quit your bitching and release your claws. It’s time to fall, whether you’re ready or not.

It’s time to be a grown up (what an awful concept). It doesn’t mean all the stale things you think though, like wearing cravats and only having one glass of wine over dinner. It just means you have to Let Go of a few things. You have to Let Go of the baggage you’ve been carrying around since high school. Sure you have your insecurities, we all do, but it’s time to put them down in a place where they can’t hurt you anymore.

You have to Let Go of all the childish things you see in the world, and start understanding limitlessness for real. Let Go of your anger, and all the stored up rage inside you (just let it rip if you want, scream and break things, but be sure to let it all go). Let go of the detritus of all your failures and of all those who have failed you. Let Go of your adopted cynicism because maybe being a grown up is really just about accepting that the magic has been there all along, and you’ve just been too immature to let it happen to you.

It’s time to be less afraid, because all those broken hearts only amount to as much as you allow them to. If you don’t Let Go of them now, let them fall to the ground and actually shatter the way they were supposed to before you so greedily scooped them back up and held them to your chest, you might miss out on love. So drop it now — your mistrustfulness, your obsessive, unhealthy relationship with your wounds — yes, it really is time to Let Go.

It’s time to fall — yeah OK, when you Let Go, you’re going to fall. I’m not going to lie; it’s probably going to hurt like a mofo. If it makes you feel better I can go first, and I’ll wait at the bottom to catch you. Because we’re doing this together remember? We’re going to Let Go because holding on to this wire is cutting lines through our palms and if we hang here too long they’ll scar and every time we look down at our hands we’ll remember we’re just prisoners.

So, here we go. On the count of three… One… Two… Ready?… Three. LET GO. Now we’re falling, and all the things we kept wrapped around us, all the spikey, nasty, ugly things that we thought made us safe for so long are just specks in the sky, becoming smaller as we fly away. TC mark

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  • Guest

    thank you for writing this

  • Sophia

    “…because all those broken hearts only amount to as much as you allow them to.”This line is perfect, and is exactly what I needed.

  • Guest

    This came at the perfect time, thank you.

  • http://goldenday.tumblr.com Kia Etienne

    “If you don’t Let Go of them now, let them fall to the ground and actually shatter the way they were supposed to before you so greedily scooped them back up and held them to your chest, you might miss out on love.”that is truly beautiful, Kat.

  • Anon

    I cannot appreciate this more. 

  • LeslieRules!

    This is so beautiful!!! Thank you!

  • http://www.aquaticcousins.blogspot.com/ SparkerPants

    Well done, Kat.

  • Rejz_blaze

    Let’s go. I’m ready. I’ just waiting for you, anyway. Okay? 1 2 3!GO

  • Guestropod

    Uh.  How?  Are you free of all your insecurities now, KG?Gue

  • http://twitter.com/morganizing Morgan Kelley

    exclamation points are flying out  of my brain right now because all I’ve needed to see/read/hear for the past week, you wrote. yahtzee.

  • guest

    Absolutely loved this. Let go and live fully.

  • guest

    Absolutely loved this. Let go and live fully.

  • http://somuchtocome.blogspot.com/ Aja

    This was a really great Friday morning read and a pleasurable thought for the start of the weekend.  Hats off to you KG. 

  • Omg

    holy shit. i’m struggling with a situation where i need to let go, and i was writing about it yesterday. and i was reading thought catalog and i was thinking ‘i wish they would write something about letting go’. and you did. literally the next day. holllly shit. i love you.

  • Omg

    holy shit. i’m struggling with a situation where i need to let go, and i was writing about it yesterday. and i was reading thought catalog and i was thinking ‘i wish they would write something about letting go’. and you did. literally the next day. holllly shit. i love you.

  • Katgeorge

    I can read your brainzzzzzz

  • Katgeorge

    I can read your brainzzzzzz

  • Guest

    thank you from me, as well.  this helped so many in more ways than one.  well written, and well done!

  • Guest

    thank you from me, as well.  this helped so many in more ways than one.  well written, and well done!

  • Guest

    thank you from me, as well.  this helped so many in more ways than one.  well written, and well done!

  • Guest

    Thank you! I needed this!

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    Thank you! I needed this!

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  • Hi

    “We’re going to Let Go because holding on to this wire is cutting lines through our palms and if we hang here too long they’ll scar and every time we look down at our hands we’ll remember we’re just prisoners.” perfect.

  • http://twitter.com/Ouleena Wf

    Amen.

  • http://twitter.com/Ouleena Wf

    Amen.

  • DanaD

    smart cookie, you are

  • http://twitter.com/ElleCSid Lindsay Christine

    But…its not really that easy…
    If it was as easy as saying “Let Go” then…it would be easy…

  • http://www.twitter.com/mexifrida Frida

    “maybe being a grown up is really just about accepting that the magic has been there all along, and you’ve just been too immature to let it happen to you.”

    This really helps me right now.

  • Thankful

    “If it makes you feel better I can go first, and I’ll wait at the bottom
    to catch you. Because we’re doing this together remember?”

    Even if it’s in the metaphorical sense, it’s nice not to feel that you’re doing this alone. Thanks, Kat.

  • ANG

    Thank you thank you thank you. I needed this. <3

  • Guest

     let go of the idea that you can tell me what to do..
    also..
    some people hold on for a reason.

  • Guest

    what is with young people and purposely letting go and forgetting? …
    this article is just naive.

  • Aschloss73

    Thank you Kat George. Tomorrow I’m going to buy a shit ton of thrift store china and shatter all. I’ll probably be listening to Devotchka or something equally emotional. Then I’ll bake a lemon cake.

  • Amanda

    Just what I needed. Letting Go with you… this is what it feels like to finally be free.

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