There is no point flogging a dead horse; even if you give the horse 1000 strokes of cane it will never bring the horse back – only a Easter miracle like the one we read in the bible can make that happen and since you are not as ‘holy’ as Jesus you had better let the dead horse be.
I can almost swear that you don’t understand my tantrum in the first paragraph of this piece. I just wanted to send your mind on a thinking spree about the ‘many many’ things which have made you sad, things which has been making you cry, relationships which you will love to resuscitate, businesses you will love to restart, people you will love to have back in your life and ideas you will still love to run with.
There is no point flogging a dead horse – if a horse is dead, it is dead. You are not Jesus Christ; stop trying to bring a dead horse back to life. Look at your life at the moment and ask yourself the most sincere question you can ever ask: what are the things that are not working in my life? Be very sincere with yourself; you are not submitting your answer to anybody but yourself which is why you need to be very sincere. There are relationships you have no business going back into, businesses you shouldn’t be thinking about anymore, people you should forgive and move on, ideas you should let go of and activities you need to cut away – dead horses serves as distractions in our lives; they hinder us from moving forward.
It is because you think the dead horse is the most beautiful thing; that’s why you are still trying to resuscitate it – if something once happened to you, it can happen to you again but not when you are still trying to hold on to a dead one. It is time for you to move on! You must get over the fact that the relationship is over, get over the fact that the business is not working, get over the fact that the babe will never change, get over that fact that you may not be what you planned to be – there is a living horse ready to move and waiting to be flogged nearby but you simply have to get over this dead one and assume it never was.
Look carefully at yourself and list out the things that seem dead; don’t waste time in getting over them.
Keep on Keeping on.
Gabriel Olatunji ‘Legend’ is @OLATUNJISPEAKS on Twitter – your Inspirational blogger. You can send him a mail on olatunjispeaks@gmail.com – Let’s Talk.
I agree with you. We get too emotional with things that we stay too long on them despite the fact that we know we would be better off without that thing or person. Never get too emotional to let go of your past or people that don't add value to your life.
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