When it is wiser to let go than cling on

A little boy walked slowly into the room where his mother was sitting at her desk writing. She glanced down at him and saw that he was carrying a very precious vase that her mother had given her. She immediately told him, “Robert, go put the vase down before you drop it and break it.”

“I can’t,” he replied, “I can’t get my hand out.”

“Of course, you can,” she said, “you got it down there.”

He said, “I know, mom, but it won’t come out.” The neck of the vase was very narrow, and his hand had fit it neatly inside and it was now up to his wrist. He continued to insist that he could not get it out. Growing a little concerned, his mother called out her husband.

Dad calmly took control and began gently pulling the arm trying to extract the hand from the vase. He tried loosening it up with soapy water. Still nothing. He then got some vegetable oil from the kitchen and poured it around the wrist and let it seep into the vase. He wiggled it some. It still did not budge.

“I give up,” the dad said in desperation. “I’d give a dollar right now to know how to get it out.”

“Really?” the little boy exclaimed. Then they heard a clinking sound and his hand slid right out of the vase. They turned the vase upside down and a penny plopped out. “What’s this?” they said in unison.

“Oh, that’s the penny I put inside. I wanted to get it out, so I was clutching it in my hand. But when I heard Dad say he would give a dollar to have the vase free, I let go.”

How often do we cling to things when they are nothing in comparison to what could be ours?

Learn the difference between giving up and letting go: You have to fight through bad phases to earn the best days. Let go of the past but keep the lessons.

Learn to let go of your desire to be right, your mind will also be more open to changes: The need to be right all the time is the biggest barrier to your growth. When you stop trying to figure everything out, is when you will make sense of things.

Letting to is not a sign of weakness, it is infact a sign of positivity and strength: Sometimes, letting go, is a strong signal that there is more power in letting go than holding on to something

Let bygones be bygones: Don’t focus on all the things that went wrong. Think about the possibilities the future holds for you and channelise your energies there Don’t take it too hard on yourselves: It’s important that you forgive yourself for the mistakes or the choices you made. Incredible change can happen in your life when you focus on things that you can control rather than those you can’t.