This will conclude from Maryanne Comaroto’s Friday guest post about letting go. I just finished six years of watching Lost last night with my wife and I thought how ironic given Maryanne’s post!

While you’re at it, why not let go of your hopes, dreams, and fears, as well? That you’ll be a huge success someday. That you’ll never be more than mediocre. That you’ll die alone. That true love will fix everything. That you’ll be happy when you lose the weight. That revealing your true feelings will turn people off. That you can do or be anything if you just apply yourself diligently enough. That the people with the money control everything. That you’ll meet the right person if you just rewrite your online dating profile to make yourself sound more interesting. Let it all go.

And your semantics, let go of those, too. That home is a certain place, or a certain set of people. That you have a favorite book, a favorite song, a favorite color. That you don’t like seafood, that you prefer cold weather. That you enjoy road trips, but hate flying. That there’s a certain type of person you’re attracted to, and a certain type you’d never date. That anything ever changes. That anything ever stays the same. Let all those ideas go.

That people are generally good, that people are inherently dishonest, that people from with certain nationalities or religious beliefs can’t be trusted. Let all those thoughts and opinions go. That global warming will kill us all soon anyway, that the hole in the ozone layer is closing, that life is not fair, that these are the best times and we’d better take advantage of them before.

Let me know how you plan on letting go of Lost or whatever!

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