Soy Sauce Packets & Epiphanies: Let Go...

my sister posted this on her blog and after reading it several times, i realized that it's really something that i need to learn. i've tried so hard to hang on to relationships that have no future, and in doing so have caused others to basically go to sh*t. i gather from the original post, that this was a religious sermon, and i've rewritten it a bit to really reflect the way i feel that it relates to me. making big life decisions cause all of us to make rash choices sometimes, and i think this has helped to remind me how important it really is.

"there are people who can walk away from you, and hear me when I tell you this: when people can walk away from you, let them walk. i don’t want you to try to talk another person into staying with you, loving you, calling you, caring about you, coming to see you, staying attached to you. just hang up the phone. when people can walk away from you let them walk. your destiny is never tied to anyone that has left. people leave you because they are not joined to you, and if they are not joined to you, you can’t make them stay. let them go.

and it doesn’t mean that they are a bad person it just means that their part in the story is over. and you’ve got to know when people’s part in your story is over so that you don’t keep trying to raise the dead. you’ve got to know when it’s dead. you've got to know when it’s over. let me tell you something: i’ve got the gift of good-bye, it’s the tenth spiritual gift, i believe in good-bye. it’s not that i’m hateful, it’s that i’m faithful, and I know whatever i do have, i'm meant to have. if it takes too much sweat I don’t need it. stop begging people to stay. let them go.

If you are holding on to something that doesn’t belong to you and was never intended for your life, then you need to...
LET IT GO!!!
If you are holding on to past hurts and pains...
LET THEM GO!!!
If someone can’t treat you right, love you back, and see your worth...
LET THEM GO!!!
If someone has angered you...
LET IT GO!!!
If you are holding on to some thoughts of evil and revenge...
LET IT GO!!!
If you are involved in a wrong relationship or addiction...
LET IT GO!!!
If you are holding on to a job that no longer meets your needs or talents...
LET IT GO!!!
If you have a bad attitude...
LET IT GO!!!
If you keep judging others to make yourself feel better...
LET IT GO!!!
If you are struggling with the healing of a broken relationship...
LET IT GO!!!
If you keep trying to help someone who won’t even try to help themselves...
LET THEM GO!!!
If you’re feeling depressed and stressed...
LET IT GO!!!
Let the past be the past. Forget the former things...
LET THEM ALL GO!!!
Get Right or Get Left...
AND LET IT GO!!!"

the story behind ssp&e:

so i'm not sure if you're anything like me, but being the 'off the cuff cuisine' chef that i am, i try not to let anything go to waste. you know, when you bring home some bk or mickey d's, and after consuming your poor excuse for food, have ketchup packets or sauce shots left over that you throw in the door and forget about. same goes for chinese food, and you know they always give you enough sauce to put out a fire at the pentagon with your order. you throw them in your refrigerator door and forget about them. then one day you're trying to impress some last minute guests that have decided to stay at your place for dinner and all you have in your 'gourmet' kitchen are some ramen noodles, frozen veggies and some leftover grilled chicken from last weekend's cookout. the makings of a superb, on-the-fly stirfry. but wait, OH SHIT!, how are you going to make a sauce for your stirfry with no sauce? you look in the fridge and all you see is a bottle of ketchup, french's mustard (i use the term mustard loosely when describing french's), and a jar of pickle juice. oh no, what to do, what to do. then you bust open the butter holder, that invariably has never seen a stick of butter in it's life, and VOILA! soy sauce, duck sauce, hot mustard! packets, but instant chinkychow sauce nonetheless! each one of those packets, collected over time, came from a meal, inevitably eaten over conversation, an argument or during a lone lunch of self-reflection, came from a time and place in the past. as are our lessons learned. we learn through the years how to cope, how to inspire, how to teach, and how to live. we don't always remember those lessons, as we throw condiment packets in the fridge we throw life-lessons into the back of our heads, until one day we find ourself in a situation where it becomes relevant and we pull them from the back of our minds as to not waste the advice and lessons of the past. the moral of this story, and the linking of it to my blog- our life experiences are our 'soy sauce packets,' our hidden links to our experiences of our past...

e·piph·a·ny - noun - a sudden, intuitive perception of or insight into the reality or essential meaning of something, usually initiated by some simple, homely, or commonplace occurrence or experience. [www.dictionary.com]

the epiphanies that we experience in life, questions or situations that we find ourselves in, and don't know how to resolve, can most often be solved my raking our brains in search of a 'soy sauce packet.' an answer to a question. a solution to a problem. and so this, this blog, is simply an ever-expanding culmination of soy sauce packets in my butter box, and the epiphanies that have helped to make room for more butter in my fridge...

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Sunday, April 13, 2008

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