Tuesday, August 21, 2007

Priorities

If you want something you have to let something else go.  That’s what I was reading the other day in one of my books.  I’ve heard this over and over, thought about it, and meditated on it many times.  But this particular book put it in a way that I have not thought about it before. 
If you want to lose ten pounds you must release the jelly donut.
Now that seems perfectly logical and sane, but for some reason this time it really struck me.  I have started to wonder, what exactly is my jelly donut?  What am I holding onto that will not allow me to move onto something new?
I feel like I am so close to knowing what it is – so close to seeing it for what it is and being able to let it go.  But something stops me at the last moment and I can’t quite get there….