Know thyself the Greek the philosopher Socrates said years ago. What other better way to discover yourself. I am constantly in search of a better me. I keep working on myself and I find I have a lot to let go.
Here are the few important things I need to let go, there are a few others as well, but these are the important ones right now.
Attachments I am not greatly attached to wealth position or power but I am greatly attached to people. A very long time ago a friend of mine left me for another as a teenager it hurt me a lot. For years i never got to close to anyone.
Then the cycle changed and I fell in love , got married and had kids. Now, my boys are grown up and it is hard to let go of them. This pandemic gave me a chance to spend a lot of time with them. We played, laughed, watched, movies, F1 races and did a lot of stuff together. A couple of weeks ago both of them left home, both to their hostel rooms at the hospital and the university. Every day after that has been rough for me to cope with the emptiness. I have to remind myself time and again that I need to let them go so they can blossom in their chosen fields. This empty nest has been the toughest battle for me. I need to stop trying to hold them back.
Addiction to plants. I have collected more than 1600 plants now .My porch, balcony, stairs, pergola and terrace are all overflowing with plants. I used to constantly buy every new plant I see and spend loads of money on them and for their maintenance as well. It had become a huge addiction, so I detached myself from all those social media groups which triggered this madness. I still have loads of plants and I was planning to sell them off before the pandemic. That project came to an abrupt stop as the covid blew out into pandemic proportions. Now, I have propagated and multiplied my plants to such a level its hard to move around my so called garden. It is better to call it a jungle, I need to let go and give away as many plants as possible.
Let go of my comfort zone. I need to become more sociable. I used to avoid any kind of social gathering before the pandemic and now it has become so easy to escape from people, the pandemic has become my perfect excuse. I need to get back to a certain level of socializing, I need people and it is not okay to avoid people. I am working on this right now.
I need to reduce my time online. The pandemic has made this my refuge. I am online for almost 18 hours a day, writing, learning or reading stuff. I don't want this to become another addiction I need to struggle with like my plant addiction. Besides sitting in one place with no exercise at all is an invitation for my old back ache to come back. It also does my health no good at all.
Another thing I need to let go off is my fixation with one hobby at the cost of the others. I haven't painted in a long time or crafted much. I need to allocate time for these as well. I just have to let go of my obsession with online writing to include the others as well. Less screen time would do a world of good for my eyes as well, I guess.
I keep** collecting stuff to recycle**. Creative recycling takes a lot of time and effort. This means that my home becomes a dump yard. So, I need to let go of those as well. I know that wouldn't be hard as I know so many people who would be willing to take the stuff I want to give away.
I am a workaholic, I need to find time for myself. I need to let go of needing to do everything the way I want it even it means hours of work. I need to find a balance in life all over again.I think sometimes its just me Ego which won't let me delegate some of this work to others. I need to let go. This I think is a small price for the kind of freedom I will get. I know that from my experiences from before.
These are some areas I have been working on but I know I have to go much further.
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