Chapter 21
Letting it Go

I’ve learned a lot living in this house. I’ve learned about the spirit world and life on earth. It’s not about how many trophies you’ve won or how many books you’ve read or how much money you have. It’s about heart, compassion, understanding and love.

We are thrown into this world expected to survive. Everyday we are faced with fear, pain, loneliness, suffering, shame, guilt, betrayal. We spend much of our lives trying to make sense of ourselves and what is happening around us. Only some of us find peace with it.

As I stand in truth about my experiences, I’ve also learned that not everyone is accepting of the concept of ghosts or the existence of the spirit world. There are many people who are skeptical and there are others who are very afraid.

I believe that each of us have the same objective living here on Earth and that is to find someone to love, to be loved and to share a life with another.

I think it’s safe to say that probably for must of us, the lives we are living today are not the ones we had initially planned for ourselves. But the circumstances and choices we made whether in our control or out of our control led us to the lives we are living now.

These lives are so short, so fragile and so unpredictable. Anything can happen at anytime. People have to find out what is really important in their lives and hold on to their truths.

Keep the people you love close to you. Cherish your material things that you care so much about and enjoy them. Keep your positive relationships and get rid of the negative ones.

Separate from the people who bring you down, who don’t support you, who create stress and anxiety in your life. Obligational or not, know who they are and know what they are doing to you.

No one can have a spiritual relationship for you. You have to find it yourself. But you are a much better person than anyone in this world will ever give you credit for.

This world hardens us. Each day of our lives, we build upon the day before to strive to be the best we can be under the circumstances we are given. Will we ever be satisfied? Can we ever be happy?

Whatever motivates you, whatever you feel is important to you in this life and whatever road you decide to travel, let’s hope it’s a road to everlasting peace and happiness.

If you can do this and make it through until your day comes to make your transition, then you have done well and you have successfully completed your journey. And now it is time to let it go and move on. There will be bigger, better and brighter things to come.

Only in the end will we know why. Why we were here and for what reason did we have to go through the things we did. What did we learn along the way? Why did we meet certain people? What lessons were to be learned? And what did we learn from the people that weren’t necessarily our friend but perhaps an adversary. What did they teach us? What did we learn about ourselves from that involvement?

But even more important, while you are struggling day to day with your own problems and facing your own difficulties, how are you treating others? What are you creating while you are here in this time frame? Are you creating more love or more fear? Do you spread the positive of joy and happiness or the negative of anger, ridicule and judgement. The world will go on without us. Did you make it better or worse during your stay?

Thoughts are “things” and unlike the magnet, positive attracts positive and negative attracts negative. Once you get to the Other Side, it is truly a new beginning. Don’t take the anger, resentment and bitterness with you. Leave it here on earth. Let it go. Once you cross over there will be an entirely new learning experience.

The part you played on this earth you will never play again. Play it well. Then, take the good with you and leave the rest behind.

In the meantime, like ripples in the water, what you say and what you do has an effect on many more people than you know. Spread the love, joy, kindness, and forgiveness that you truly know yourself to be and that you truly are. It goes a long way in the spirit world and it is for that you will be most remembered here on earth.