Giving Up vs. Letting Go

           People might think these two things are the same but really they are not. I have had to deal with both but I didn't know that they were different until here recently. A friend said something to me that I never heard but also made sense. She said, "Giving up and letting go are not the same thing. They are two things that are totally different." Or something along those lines. For once, I am not giving up in life, I am just letting go or at least trying to but no one is perfect at that either.
            "Giving up" means totally giving up on the thing or person you care deeply about. It means you really don't care about them anymore and that it is easy forget about the thing or person. You could care less about how they live life. It is also where you get mad easily and worry a lot. It is where the anxiety keep kicks in. "Giving up" is what I have felt in the past, I will admit, whether things having to do with me or people I care about or both. I am trying to have a new thought process about it and that process is a "letting go" one.
            "Letting go" means the total opposite of that. It means you still care deeply about the thing or person but you are just stepping back. You are letting go of them by not being in their face or life all the time and vice via. To me, I still pray for that person and share their things every once in awhile but that is it. I might even try to encourage them here and there but it is up to them if they take what I say that way or not. More importantly, for me, when I am "letting go", I am trying to put that thing or person and whatever the situation might be into the Hands of God.

              I know this is a short entry but just wrote down the main ideas. That is all I can think to say. I can't get anything else to come out of my mind. I feel like if I go into this entry more that I might mess the whole message up so I am just going to stop right here. Hope it makes sense and gets to the point like I want it to.