This Is Me

title: "Let Go"
slug: "let-go"
date: "2023-05-23"
author: "Eden Blackfoot-Hare"

excerpt: ""
featured_image: "/images/posts/222937f716dbd35d52023c62114b0bc3.jpg"
featured_image_width: "30%"
featured_image_align: center
status: "published"
categories:
  - inspirational
tags:
  - inspirational

content:
  - type: paragraph
    text: |
      I wrote a few days ago about decisions.  About how small things I call choices, and larger, more complex things are decisions.

      Sometimes, we make choices, decisions, because we don't see them as overly complex, but because we are doing something that could have some negative side effect, or which is very radical for us.
  - type: paragraph
    text: |
      Sometimes we have to let go. And sometimes not.
      Sometimes we have to take time to analyze the choice, and realize how negative the outcome could be.
      Sometimes we need to just do it.
  - type: paragraph
    text: |
      Just like when you jump out of an airplane on your first sky dive.

      That wasn't me!  I was not sky diving yesterday afternoon after my opthamology appointment.
  - type: paragraph
    text: |
      What I was doing was getting my hair done.
      I was doing something that I wanted to do.
      Something incredibly radical for me.  I have never done anything like this.  The whole time I sat in the chair while my stylist was applying her craft, I was saying "I can't believe I am doing this."
      At one point she said, "Trust the process.  You know I have done this many times, and you obviously trust me to do this.  You are going to love it."
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    text: |
      She wasn't wrong.  When we were done; hair dried and coiffed, she let me see the finished result.  I has glimpses before, and was just a little shocked, and maybe more nervous.
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    text: |
      But I like this.  The immediate reaction is "Wow!".
  - type: quote
    text: Bold.  Daring.  Beautiful.
  - type: image
    src: "images/posts/7373827e1bc1eb0d925402f9cdb00e2e.jpg"
    alt: "The author with pink hair"
    caption: "Me!"
    width: "50%"
    align: center
  - type: paragraph
    text: |
      Those are some of the words describing how I feel about the outcome of the CHOICE.  This felt like a decision; almost as hard a coming out.  But it wasn't.
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    text: |
      Sometimes, we just have to let go.  And jump.
  - type: paragraph
    text: |
      (P.S.  Remember how important it is to have coffee in the morning.  That means not running out just because you are excited about pink hair!)