Mantra Monday VXII: Let Go, Let Grow
Author: Joe Lizz
When I was little, my mother used to keep a big garden out front. Every year she would grow vegetables and raspberries, and in the fall, we would have our own home-grown pumpkins and gourds for Halloween.
Inside, she also kept beautiful house plants in pots in our kitchen and back porch. While I hated having to weed the outside garden every year, I loved repotting the indoor plants with her.
We would always talk about how important it is to not confirm yourself by your roots and to move on when you have outgrown where you currently are in life.
Growth means change, and sometimes change can be hard. We are, by nature, creatures of habit and comfort. We like what we like, and we are uncomfortable when we must live outside of our bubble of familiarity.
But outside of that bubble, we push ourselves and become better versions of ourselves through failure and success, new experiences, new friendships, and at times, through outgrowing and moving on from that which no longer serves us.
Today’s mantra is about both the way we care for ourselves as well as the way we care for others in our lives.
We can water, prune, bask in sunlight as much as we want, but when we outgrow and don’t move on, we begin to suffer.
Sometimes we must let go of where we are. Sometimes we have to let go of who we are with, and even harder, sometimes we have to let go of others for their own benefit even when we selfishly want to keep them exactly where they are.
We often hear “let go of what no longer serves you” and that’s when growth and evolution as a human takes root, creating space for better things to come to fruition. Give yourself the space and opportunity to grow.
Don’t let fear or discomfort hold you back from a new job or starting a new path or moving across the country (or the world).
Just like plants, we can re-root ourselves in new, better soil and thrive. At 10-years-old I didn’t realize how “plant like” it is to be human. How important it is to have roots, but to also not allow those roots to permanently define where we are in life. Just as time continuously passes, we continue to grow and evolve.
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