Steem4nigeria Accelerator Contest Week 109: Letting Go

Hello steemians, 5 I welcome you all to this exciting eventful contest that specifically talks about us "letting go", it is important to let go of things so that we don't end up getting hurt or even hurting others, letting go helps us become peace makers and people of integrity.

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What Do You Understand By The Subject Matter; Letting Go

What I understand by the subject matter letting go is that we should forgive and release any emotional attachment. This is when we let bygones be bygones. Letting go can be done when we erase painful memories, traumas, and regrets and eventually move on with the future. Whenever I hear the phrase "let go" I usually think of forgiveness whereas it doesn't only talk about that.

Letting go can also be used when we have certain expectations, desires, and outcomes, that we know are impossible to achieve at the moment, and focus on what can easily be achieved. Letting go can also mean the act of cutting attachment with certain individuals due to specific reasons, fully stopping all relationships with those we feel don't deserve it.

The letting go regarding forgiveness all talks about releasing anger, sadness, and resentment from our heart, this is because it will only hurt more than it is going to hurt those who have wronged us one way or the other. Letting go can also mean for us not being in control anymore, because a particular position is doing more harm than good to us especially if someone else will make great decisions while in that position.

Have You Had Any Experience Where You Had To Let Go Of Something?

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There was once a time when my classmate Kelvin who was known for doing things you would never expect, and this time he went to my bag and removed another classmate's notebook 📚, he then put it in my bag, it came time for us to study physics. The teacher requested to see everyone's notebook, because he had been suspecting that when he had not been writing the notes he gave during lesson time.

When the girl fovour who's notebook was in my bag without my knowledge discovered that her notebook was no longer in her bag she met the teacher and told the teacher that she had not seen the notebook and that she was sure it was taken by someone because she also said she had used the notebook in class before the lesson period. This made our physics teacher angry and he said that whoever took the notebook should come out and return it before a search for the notebook began.

I was so comfortable in my seat and didn't bother about receiving any biting from the teacher, after some time with no one coming out to say he or she took Favour's notebook. Our physics teacher asked her to search all the school bags in the class, at that time I was so confident that when it came to my turn for her to search I was laughing and telling her to search, I told her she wouldn't find anything. And to my surprise, she found her notebook and I was crying inside myself because I knew what the teacher was going to do.

Immediately after that he ordered me out to flog me but I told him it wasn't me and he said that if it is me the truth will come out one way or the other but for now you are currently guilty with evidence. All my classmates were furious because I had never been part of such acts. The teacher didn't hesitate and flogged me with eight lashes of a cane. I went back in pain crying because I wasn't guilty.

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Later in the day after the class was over my classmate John told me that he saw Kelvin removing Favour's notebook from her school bag and then transferring it into my bag at that moment I wanted to go and tell our physics teacher. And suddenly Kelvin overhead us talking and knelt down begging not to tell the teacher, I was about to go, and he continued begging me, I was angry and betting but I had to let go because I thought of what would be done to him for what he had done he might be expelled or suspended.

Why And How Do You Know It Was Time To Let Go

When all that happened, I then said to myself You say you are like Christ so behave like Christ, This was what made me not tell the teacher, I told him that he should never do that to me or anyone again because there will be no mercy from me or whoever he was going to frame. I didn't do this because of the kind of person I claim to be in Christ, another thing that made me do that was because revenge could cause what I would never wish to do, reporting him can cause him a lot, like being expelled. I knew it was at that time I had to let go because it would have done more harm than, it's just like wanting to take revenge for a slap on the face and cause the other person to become mentally unstable.

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