Letting Go - A mother's letter to her daughter

With a control freak like me, letting go was always going to be a painful business. But what I didn’t foresee was that I wouldn’t recognise the need to when it came down to it. I’m not sure when it was we started to appear as opposing forces, but that seems to be the way it is between us with everything now. And as much as it hurts to relinquish control, what hanging on is doing to us both, hurts even more. So go. I release you, to grow and be joyous and evolve to be everything you can be. Never fear, you will never be alone, I will always be behind you but from here on out, the decisions will be yours. I just hope one day you will look back and think of  the old control freak who ruled your life with kindness and know that nothing was ever done out of malice or a wish to hold you back. But rather my actions were born out a love so big and so powerful I lost control of it and it ended up controlling me.  Be happy.