Life unfolds moment by moment, but we often find ourselves clinging to things we’ve set in motion. Why? Why do we desire specific outcomes? Is it because we believe that what we started must end in a particular way? Yet, deep down, we know better: the past does not guarantee the future.
We might prepare, apply, act with intention, but does that mean anything more than the action itself? What do we cling to when we wish for results? The outcome, the feeling, or the story we have crafted about how things “should” go?
If the result never came, would the absence of it undo the action itself? Does the meaning we attribute to things fade, or is meaning just another illusion we layer on top of what’s already happening?
These are not trivial questions, yet they are so often ignored because it’s easier to hope and fear than it is to truly let go. To let go means to be in this moment fully—without the clinging to what the next moment might bring. And when you truly let go, you realize that nothing is ever “meant to happen.” It simply happens.
We often fool ourselves with the idea that striving toward a goal means we are in control. But control is an illusion. Even if you “do your best,” what does that mean in a limitless universe? Does doing your best have an end point? Or are you caught in a race, not toward your goal, but toward an endless pursuit of the next one?
And yet, there is no race. No “best.” No need to perpetuate the idea of achieving something. We can walk away from suffering by simply realizing that suffering itself is a product of this unnecessary striving. It’s an illusion we keep chasing.
So why cling to one perspective when you can let it go and just be? The real question is: will you?
