Don't hate me, but I didn't LOVE the movie Frozen. It's a cute movie yes, but I think by the time I saw it, it had been so hyped up, that it was almost kind of a let down. Sorry Elsa, you just didn't do it for me.
Also that song. That annoying Let it Go song was EVERYWHERE. At the mall, grocery store, on tv, people would post videos of their kids singining it, heck my son was even singing it, and he had never even seen the movie!!!
With that being said, it does have a great message, even though it became like nails on a chalkboard. "Let it go." I think as an adult especially in the last 10 years, I have learned more than ever that sometimes you just have to pick your battles. Sometimes you have to just let it freaking go, even when your brain doesn't want to. Even if you think about the same scenerio and from every single angle, or shoulda coulda woulda, over and over, and over again. At some point you have to free yourself and your sanity and let it go.
One of my favorite sayings is sometimes its more important to be nice, than to be right. Which I think is hard for anyone with a pulse. We are human. We like to be right. Who is anyone else to tell us that we are wrong? How dare them?
I will admit, I get caught up in that cycle. But I have noticed that once I really let the situation lie, and get my panties out of a wad, I usually have a change of heart. Sometimes I realize that maybe I was the one wrong, or out of line, or that maybe I wasn't, but at the end of the day it just doesn't matter to me anymore. That at the end of the day, sometimes we just have to put our pride aside and humble ourselves. That sometimes its best to just say we are sorry, even if we don't want to or don't think we need to.
I think in order to really enjoy life, we can't hold on to grudges or unkind feelings.
We also have to let things go that aren't good for us. Maybe its your self-talk. Maybe you are too hard on yourself emotionally because you didn't get that promotion, or you aren't as skinny as you want to be, or as rich as you want to be, etc. I think so often we focus on what we don't have, instead of what we do have.
I am grateful for all these hard experiences in life. Although they usually suck when I am going through them, I usually always find something positive in the end. This week has been rough. Physically and emotionally. If you know me personally, then you probably know that I had surgery on Monday and then my mom was admitted to the ICU the next day.
Life is fragile. We always need to be cognizant of that fact in our interactions with those we love- or even those brothers and sisters that we don't know. We don't know if the last time we talk to a family member will actually really be the last. When we have disagreements with people, we sure don't want that to be the last conversation we ever have with them.
Are we always going to handle every situation perfectly? No. However, just like anything else in life, it is the manner in which we pick ourselves up after the fact, that truly matters. I know for certain, that I am not a perfect persona and I have A LOT to improve on. But I'm trying. We just gotta take it one day at a time and love each other. As cheesy as that sounds, that is what will bring us the most peace and happiness internally. We don't need to hold on to unnecessary baggage and pain. It's not worth it. Let it go. Love yourself. Love other people. We have no idea what another person is going through or struggling with. We just have to be nice. Period. And if we aren't nice, then we need to fix it. It's that simple.
