They also agreed that he should never date or marry because how easy would it be for a girl to break his heart? "It is better to just keep him here with us where he is loved and protected," they said. They told him, "Don’t run, don’t jump, don’t climb on things and stay out of all the rooms where there are dangerous things because we love you and don’t want to see you get hurt. It’s for your own good." …Okay, by now you are probably saying, "I get the point!" I give you this extreme and hypothetical situation to overstate that not all struggle or pain is bad.

There is a fine line between aiding someone - and carrying them in a way that robs them of the life lessons needed to make them strong and help them become capable of carrying out their life's mission. Each person comes into this world with his own load, for which he and he alone is responsible. Anyone who attempts to carry another's load (or shirk his own) is not serving anyone's highest good. In fact, that is a disservice and could stunt or prevent the growth necessary to carry them through their lie's mission. Sometimes you have to love a person enough to let go. Let them learn their lessons.

When you let go of someone by being compassionately detached, you don’t let go so they fall. You let go so they can fly!

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