WHAT IS SO IMPORTANT ABOUT LETTING GO?

Recently I heard a poem entitled "let go." This poem by an unknown author repeatedly talks about why it is important to let go. What is it that we are supposed to be letting go? The poem states that it is not about stopping caring but the recognition that we can't do it for others. Also an awareness that we can't control others. Letting go is also not about caring for, but it is caring about. It is not about enabling others to not take responsibility for themselves, but it is about encouraging and supporting others to be responsible for themselves. Finally, letting go is not to judge or criticize others but for us to choose to start becoming who we were meant to be. Criticizing and judging others focuses us away from learning who we are meant to be. Freed from the burdon of critically focusing on others we have an opportunity to see ourselves and others more clearly. 

So, why is letting go so important? I believe it is because we are letting go of a need to control other people or have other people respond to us in a certain way. It is realizing that what we worry about is actually not important and it is much better to just see what happens in our lives, including being open to the possibility that when we encourage and support others, instead of judging them, we might even see them as human, just like we are.

What do you think?