LETTING GO (THE MONKEY TRAPS)

Recently, I discovered the method used by some cultures in hunting for monkeys. Lots of hunters use the same method even though different devices, baits and processes are engaged. however, for the purpose of this discourse, i will use the style of the Indians as my point of reference.
Monkey-hunters use a box with an opening at the top, big enough for the monkey to slide its hand in. inside the box are nuts, bananas or other baits which the monkey can smell easily and find irresistible. the monkey grasp the bait,and now its hand becomes a fist.
The monkey tries to get its hand out but the opening is only big enough for the hand to slide in, but too small for the fist to come out. now the monkey has a choice, either to let go off the nuts (baits) and be free forever or hang on to the nuts and get caught. Guess what it picks everytime? - you are very correct. it hangs on to the nuts and gets caught. no matter how much the monkey yanks, it cannot escape as long as he tries to hang on to the treat. meanwhile, the hunter who sets the trap comes along, collects the monkey , and, presumably, heads back home in search of a cooking pot and fire.
The works because the monkey is focused on obtaining the food inside and doesn't understand that the price of obtaining that particular morsel will be its own freedom. to be fair to the monkey, it is not that it is stupid, it is just that letting go seldom occurs to it.
We are no different from the monkeys, we all hang on to some nuts that keep us from going forward in life. The big monkey trap, the one which dooms the monkey and can snare us if we are not careful is short-thinking; the ability to place immediate events into the context of what is in our long term interest. if only the monkeys learn to let go of the nuts, at least, it will live to search for food another day.
Like the monkeys, a lot of us lack the ability to look beyond the moment. "if i let go of this , where will the next one come from?" is the question that runs through our mind. we hang on to the wrong relationships, wrong businesses, people, jobs, etc because we are too conscious of the now. we are afraid to let go. Till the hunters (e.g emotional disaster, diseases, poverty, etc) catches up with us.
We have the nut of that bad decision or choice we made clutched tightly and can see the consequences closing in. But still, we hang on, convinced that if we let go, we somehow will lose more than if we just admit the mistake and move on.
Friends, my admonition to you is; DON'T BE MONKEYED, learn to let go.

Till we meet again, remember: you can only get better. STAY BLESSED