Wisdom of LETTING GO
- Andy McIlvain
- Jun 7
- 1 min read
Video from Reflections of Life
Wisdom of LETTING GO
"Growing older teaches us many things, but sometimes it also asks us to remember what we once knew so naturally - how to play, how to wonder, how to stay open to the world around us. There is a quiet kind of wisdom in innocence, and perhaps we spend much of our lives trying to find our way back to it.
Maybe growing young again is not about turning back time, but about softening into life as it is. Letting go of what we were told we had to become, and returning to the quieter truths that were there all along. The ones that remind us to question, to feel, to stay curious, and to keep our hearts alive.
Love, loss, friendship, nature, memory - they all shape us. They leave their marks, their ache, and their beauty. And maybe, in the end, a life well lived is not about holding on tightly, but learning how to love what is here, while we have it, and to gently let it go when the time comes.
Featuring Harry Owen (Website - https://harryowen.co.za).
Filmed in Stellenbosch, South Africa
The poems read in this film are Harry’s own: Making It, He Ain’t Heavy, and Fall.
The closing lines are taken from Mary Oliver’s beautiful poem In Blackwater Woods." from the video introduction
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