I really don't have time to be typing this, but obviously I am. It's about that letting go stuff I was talking about a while back.
Okay so there was this couple who sponsored me on violin. Meaning they went on a trip to Germany, got a violin for their son, it was too small so they gave it to me and told my mom they'd be paying for violin lessons. It's been 6 1/2 years, and they continually are. However he got sick, real sick, hospital sick and she (his wife) started acting different, nervous, and told everyone that he wasn't going to die. She said that "he's short and spunky and will perk right up". She couldn't let go of him. She wouldn't allow herself too. He was old. So, they walked out of the hospital and went home. Their house was decked full of old days- stacks of memories, papers and old knick-knacks they were given. Of which they couldn't let go of either. Things got worse and he had to go back to the hospital, but he fell out of his wheel chair soon afterwards, cut his head, and that following morning passed away. She was sad. It was obvious. But, and I know this will sound not right, but I think she's learning to let go, too. She said that her spunky boy was not coming home. I wish I was there, I would have said he went home. Not coming home, going home. It was different.
I had a science test the other day, so, to help me study I "taught" my Dad, as if I was the teacher and he the student. He's good at being the student. I told him that the reason metallic bonds were so strong was because the electrons were delocalized, they didn't stay with just one atom. They left and went to different shells of atoms too. That's why they were so strong. Not like the non-metallic atoms that kept their electrons until they were taken away or gained. Today dad said that was like people too. That the strongest times are when we let go of part of ourselves, let go and give it to someone else, then we're strong. He also said how it was like the trinity, but that part confused me- I'll have to ask him again.
The other morning I heard a mix of Oh holy night and Still Still Still. It was playing on 101.1, ya know, the high falootin' classical station. But, it really affected me.
I wonder, do the robins ever have to let go too?
Everything let's go of something in order to grow..
ReplyDeleteI agree. Now I need to find what it is I need to let go of.
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