Letting Go

A few years after we got married my ex wife knitted for me a beautiful multicoloured   wollen pullover with a monkey cap. It was a beautiful one and whenever I wore it , people admired it and enquired from which store I had bought it from ,and  I proudly used to say that my wife had knitted it for me. I thanked my ex wife for knitting this beautiful pullover for me, There was so much love and caring behind it. She had taken a few months to knit it. In those days I was sailing on the ship , as I was a seafarer. I had worn this pullover from the biting Russian winters to the comparative milder winters in India. I wore this pullover for more than 15 years and was very much attached to it. It became a part of me.

 A  I had participated in a transformation workshop which lasted for a few days. Since it was winter I wearing the pullover. One of the participants in the workshop liked the pullover and at first jokingly remarked  if I could give it to him. I kept quiet and did not react. The third day he again passed a similar remark. I got irritated and said” I am sorry I cannot give you the  pullover”. At that point of time the thoughts that crossed my mind were “ How can I part with this pullover which my wife had knitted for me with so much love and care and which had become an extension of myself for more than 15 years. I was too emotionally attached to it.

In the workshop one of the lessons I had learnt was about the law of giving and receiving, the more one gives , the more one receives in life and creates abundance for one self in all spheres of one’s life. I decided to implement this lesson in my life and not to be too attached to anything. A few days thereafter I met my friend of the workshop and gave him the pullover which had become a part of my life.

I was a bit emotional while giving the pull over as if a part of me was being detached from me. My friend saw my tears and we both hugged thereafter. I was now complete within myself and moving on in my life. The universe has given me lots of abundance in my life in various ways and giving and receiving has become a way of being in my life.