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LET IT BE

By Gil delos Santos

"Living by the moment" life principle becomes widely popular nowadays in pursuit to less stress life management especially in this time of the covid pandemic. It complements that life indeed is short if we look at the circumstances surrounding how everything is glued on a fast paced setting...not until the virus provided slowness effortlessly. Everything was reset and put in slow motion if not stagnant at some point. Our life stopped for a moment yet we're unable to maximize the essence of "living by the moment" in the manner how we wish it could have been.

It is painful to take the course of life that contradicts our own wants. This is an irony that's heavy to deal with. Life at times bite at us when we can't enjoy personal choices because we share a world with common people that we have to consider. They sometimes demand something that leave us with no choice but to distance rather than stay to suppress our freedom of self-expression because of conflicting life preferences. Human as we are, emotion is the biggest factor that separates people if blinded by anger and poor judgment. So do with the victims of this pandemic, most of us cannot do much what we want to do eventhough the presence of time is here because we need to consider the protocols. 

Coming to this mind stage looking for settlement for peace rather than resist to stress isn't easy until we learn how to understand why we need to "let things be". 

Life gives so much irony if we are one dimensional in perspective. We cannot arrive on something peaceful and workable if we continue to seek exaltation and self-importance. At the end, what do we get from being so righteous when someone suffers from it anyway?

If The God that you believe "let you" in times you were desperate and cursing, why can you not LET your imperfect brother live fairly until he learns his own lessons...not by force imposition of your might?

In order to "live by the moment" with meaning and relevance, LET THINGS BE. If you can't understand the people that displease you now, in time you will...everything will make sense when you believe that peace is still the answer. Offer peace first before love can grow. 

Let it be brother! And I'll let you.
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