“Do not expect anything in return, do not expect your efforts to be appreciated, your genius to be discovered, your love to be understood.” Closing a cycle by Paulo Coelho

There was a book I read once a long time ago that discussed having Solitude vs being lonely and it taught me a great deal on grieving. There is an assumption that we should only grieve when something dies but in actuality we are meant to grieve when we leave a place, person or thing… when the seasons change in our lives, when we break up, move on and build a fresh. It’s at these points in our lives that the thread of our souls have suddenly snapped from their attachments to other souls and we need to give our souls souls a moment to move on.

Despite reading that book and trying to live a life of letting go it still remains a struggle on my part to understand what the quote above says. That I should never do anything expecting something… it just brings about frustration and disappointment. Two things I am very familiar with. Yet the struggle continues.