Inner Dialogue

How come it seems that my life is a study in extremes? So many times I have events, feelings, people co-existing in my world that represent extreme contrasts between negative and positive energies. This morning, even as I flew to the top of the world in some areas of my life, something happened that firmly grounded me back on earth, requiring me to deal with a situation that has been causing me much sadness of late. Boundaries have been crossed and it's not just affecting me, it's affecting people I care deeply about. The realization that sometimes the best way to help someone is to let them go is not an easy one to make... guilt over not doing enough, over not being enough is tempered by the knowledge that sometimes, no matter how much you want a better life for someone, they have to want it for themselves. Until that happens, nothing can be done. Consequences are a direct result of choices made... and there are *always* choices to be made. Hopefully that lesson will be learned sooner than later.