There are different kinds of surrender. Surrender to self. Surrender to death. Surrender to societal “norms”, on and on it goes. On 21September2023, I surrendered to acknowledging that the place I work that had once healed me from the stress of a toxic work environment had now become another toxic work environment when a change in management occurred. It was now destroying whatever healing had occurred. I knew nothing I could do would change it. My desire to work in a healthy, non-toxic environment was unwanted because this meant a bully could not control me. So I surrendered. I quit. I walked out without notice because their treatment of me did not deserve notice or consideration of the situation my leaving left them in. It had been a great place to work and I had warned them when the change in management occurred that if I was not treated fairly. If I was not treated as an adult and with integrity, then I would no longer work there. This came to pass and I walked. I haven’t regretted a single minute of it.

I surrendered to my circumstances and make the best of this cage until I get out.

I’ve had several journeys that came to that very sad and definite conclusion. But that’s because I invest too much in things that overall have zero benefit to me. If anything, those experiences can make life worse and the saddest part is I was aware of that every second I was in the thick of it. Yet I chose to stay right there. So yeah, I surrender…I have to…so I can get out of my own way. I fight like hell for what matters most, but I learned the hard way that placing way too much emphasis on things/relationships/areas of dealing with my own existence that ultimately don’t serve my growth of love and overall being…giving all of that too much power over your journey and the happiness that can be acquired on it can be such a waste of time and energy. Your energy can be recharged but time? That’s something you can’t get back. Sometimes you have to just give yourself the gift of letting go of the array of bs so you can have the chance to thrive properly in the precious amount of time that you have in this life.

My dad died and ever since the house has been falling apart. And I've been stressed for 5 years because I don't have the money to fix it. I may be buried under rubble soon. 😂

"If you surrender, you neither live nor win" ~ Josey Wales

I did over my alcoholism. As the AA saying goes "Surrender to win!"

Daily, my "Will & Life," is all I have to surrender now.

no, i will never surrender, to anyone or anything.

Yeah. Nothing changed 😂

N. America. Thinking of emigrating....

I'm thinking about it right now. 23 years of sobriety can be destroyed in one night. Who gives a damn either way. Nothing really matters anyway.

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surrendering to what?

I carry around all these bags all the time. You can’t. You shouldn’t. You’re not good enough. You’re ridiculous. You’re pathetic. Silliness I can’t seem to just put down and walk away from. Somewhere in my 40s, I finally started noticing how smothered I was. Started getting this idea that I didn’t have to be wonderful or beautiful or special to enjoy being alive. I don’t think I’ll ever be traveling light, but those moments feel like a surrender to acceptance. I live more truly and deeply and loudly in those moments than I did for decades of my life. Nothing monumental outside the halls of my own brain.

I think of it all the time. Living in a world run by maniacal, criminal psychopaths and all related subsequent expressions, isn't a good life for me. I want to be free of ALL of it.

i ignored reality and kept working in a soul crushing corporate job and living in a loveless marriage for way too long. depression over took me and i was a shell of myself. one day driving home from work, i witnessed a pedestrian can hit by a truck right in front of me, and i didn't even blink an eye. that's when i knew i had to blow everything up because i didn't even recognize who i was. i quit my job the next day and got a quick (read: 'expensive') divorce. learned a new trade and restarted in a new career. took 8 years to get back on my feet. don't chase titles and clout, if you want happiness do the things you're proud of and that make you a better person.

No i just rest a lil and go again