Think About It

Have you ever been wound up about something and had someone say, “Just let it go!”. Most of us have sought counsel about something (or more probably, someone) troubling you and had a confidant say let it go. It’s not only common advice, its pretty good advice … but what does it mean? One of the issues with this type of advice is that even if we admit it sounds good, do we really understand what people are trying to get us to do? Are they telling us to just forget about what has happened to us? Even the best of us will struggle with forgiving and forgetting, so how do we let it go? As I thought about this quip from a deeper level, I don’t think the point is to try to forget what has happened as much as it is for us to just take the emotional pain out of it. We may remember the details, we just don’t feel the hurt. Troubling situations can help us to grow and develop, but when we can extract the lesson without harboring ill-will we will be much better off. Is there something bothe