{"id":1174999,"date":"2025-12-16T12:00:00","date_gmt":"2025-12-16T17:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thoughtcatalog.com\/?p=1174999"},"modified":"2025-12-15T13:28:10","modified_gmt":"2025-12-15T18:28:10","slug":"in-2026-im-letting-go-of-what-is-not-meant-for-me","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thoughtcatalog.com\/marisa-donnelly\/2025\/12\/in-2026-im-letting-go-of-what-is-not-meant-for-me\/","title":{"rendered":"In 2026, I\u2019m Letting Go Of What Is Not Meant For Me"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

In this new year, I\u2019m letting go of all that I can\u2019t control.<\/em><\/strong> I\u2019m closing my eyes and praying over what is not mine to understand or make sense of. I\u2019m trusting God<\/a> to take my feet and guide me. I\u2019m exhaling anxiety and fear and allowing whatever comes to come. I\u2019m releasing my tight grip on everything I\u2019ve known and embracing all that lies ahead, new and untouched.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In this new year, I\u2019m letting go of fear.<\/em><\/strong> I\u2019m going to try my hardest to stop overthinking, to stop allowing my mind to wander to all the things that scare me or that I can\u2019t fix. I\u2019m going to smile, even when I\u2019m faced with doubt. I\u2019m going to trust, even when I don\u2019t have the answers. And most importantly, I\u2019m going to surround myself with what feels good, rather than what is eating a hole in my chest.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In this new year, I\u2019m letting go of doubt.<\/em><\/strong> I\u2019m going to stop speaking harmful words to myself, stop twisting my mind in circles, stop telling myself that I\u2019m not enough, or unworthy, or less. Instead of believing lies or focusing on what I want to change about myself, I will listen to the wild beating of my heart. I will stand bravely. I will push back. I will be proud of my skin and soul.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In this new year, I\u2019m letting go of old relationships.<\/em><\/strong> Ones where I no longer find myself a major character. Ones that hold me back, rather than build me. Ones that are no longer mine to keep. I will give myself a chance to start again<\/a>, give the people of my past freedom to move on without any strings attached. I will accept that love is meant to be felt, but not always forever. And I will no longer carry pain or bitterness from the old into the new.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In this new year, I\u2019m letting go of brokenness.<\/em><\/strong> I\u2019m choosing to hit the \u2018restart\u2019 button, to give myself the energy and space to heal in whatever fashion and by whatever means necessary. I\u2019m going to make amends with people I\u2019ve hurt and attempt to forgive, when it\u2019s healthy, those who have hurt me. I\u2019m not going to walk around with my pain on my chest like a label. I\u2019m going to start over, start fresh.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In this new year, I\u2019m letting go of negativity.<\/em><\/strong> Because negativity is not meant to be the central focus on my life. Because there will always be something wrong, but infinitely more reasons to smile. Instead of letting people\u2019s anger or mistreatment be what I choose to see, I will look for inspiration and light<\/a> elsewhere. And I will spend time building myself and others, rather than be continually broken down.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In this new year, I\u2019m letting go of defeat.<\/em><\/strong> I\u2019m acknowledging that I can\u2019t be, won\u2019t be perfect and this is okay. I\u2019m accepting all the ways that I\u2019ve failed and will attempt to find new goals and dreams<\/a> to believe in, even if they are ones I didn\u2019t expect. Instead of allowing my defeat to define me<\/a>, I\u2019m going to write my own self-definition story. And I\u2019m going to put the past in the past.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In this new year, I\u2019m letting go of failed plans.<\/em><\/strong> I\u2019m going to understand that some things don\u2019t go the way I want them to, but that doesn\u2019t mean I\u2019m any less. Instead of looking back, I will look forward. I will create new ideas and new paths to walk. I will remind myself that my best laid plans might fall to ruin, and that\u2019s okay. God has a bigger and better one.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In this new year, I\u2019m letting go of what is not meant for me.<\/em><\/strong> I\u2019m letting go of people, of things, of feelings, of thoughts that aren\u2019t mine to keep. That aren\u2019t bringing me hope. That aren\u2019t pushing me to be a better person or inspiring me to stand after I\u2019ve fallen down. I\u2019m releasing my hold<\/a> on love that isn\u2019t reciprocated, or respect that isn\u2019t given. I\u2019m taking steps back from what I cannot change or fix, and understanding that will find my place, my hands to hold, my \u2018home\u2019 in time.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In this new year, I\u2019m letting love, and hope, and new beginnings in.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

This year, I\u2019m letting go of people, of things, of feelings, of thoughts that aren\u2019t mine to keep. That aren\u2019t bringing me hope. That aren\u2019t pushing me to be a better person or inspiring me to stand after I\u2019ve fallen down.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":52923609,"featured_media":1175003,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"thoughtcatalog_call_to_action":"","tc_post_redirect":"","thoughtcatalog_is_sponsored_content":"0","footnotes":""},"categories":[603229949,603198233],"tags":[],"anchortext":[],"posttemplate":[],"adcampaign":[],"coauthors":[313988948],"class_list":["post-1174999","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-mental-health","category-self-help"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/thoughtcatalog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/anna-storsul-jZ2IvmtzYKw-unsplash.jpg","author_meta":null,"photo_credit":null,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thoughtcatalog.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1174999","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thoughtcatalog.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thoughtcatalog.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thoughtcatalog.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/52923609"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thoughtcatalog.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1174999"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thoughtcatalog.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1174999\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1175004,"href":"https:\/\/thoughtcatalog.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1174999\/revisions\/1175004"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thoughtcatalog.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1175003"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thoughtcatalog.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1174999"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thoughtcatalog.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1174999"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thoughtcatalog.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1174999"},{"taxonomy":"anchortext","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thoughtcatalog.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/anchortext?post=1174999"},{"taxonomy":"posttemplate","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thoughtcatalog.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posttemplate?post=1174999"},{"taxonomy":"adcampaign","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thoughtcatalog.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/adcampaign?post=1174999"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thoughtcatalog.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=1174999"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}