Let them go

 by Madea

LET THEM GO

This is what I learned in all of my years on this earth. If somebody wants to walk out of your life...Let them go. Get up and go on with your life. Especially if you know you've done everything you can. You've been the best man or the best woman you could be and they still want to go,let 'em go. Whatever they're running after, they'll see what they had in a minute, but by then it's going to be too late. Half of these people you're crying about, you're worrying about, two or three years from now, you won't even remember their last name. How many times you've seen folks say, "What the h___ was I thinking? What was wrong with me? I must have been lonely as h___ to hook up with you."

Let folks go, son. Some come for a lifetime. Some come for a season. You got to know which is which. And you gonna always mess up when you mix them season of people up with lifetime expectations. You got people who have gotten married to people they were only supposed to be with for a season. They got married to people they were only supposed to be with for a season and they wonder why they have so much hell in their life. That was a person who was supposed to teach you one thing. You didn't know it so you just fell in love and now you wonder why you don't have peace nowhere you go.

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Nobody said it will be easy, but it get easier when you learn how to love yourself. When you get to the point in your life where you look at people and you go, " Wait a minute. You or me. You will make a decision." I've never in my life told nobody, "Don't bother me. Don't talk to me." But what I do, I say, "Look. This thing you're doing right here. That's gonna cause a problem. You gotta fix that. Cause if we're going to be friends, we gonna be cool, you're gonna fix that. And if you don't, we're gonna have an issue." If you see somebody fix it, or even trying to fix it that's somebody that cares. Keep them people around. That's a leaf that's trying to grow up and be something else. You understand?

But if you tell somebody, "What you doing is hurting me, you need to stop," but they keep doing it, they don't care. Move on. Let them go. No matter how much it hurt, let them go. And it will get easier. Every day it will get easier and easier, you just gotta make it through. You need to learn how to be alone. I don't understand all these people who pray, "Lord, where is my man? Lord, where is my woman?" That is crazy as h___. If you don't know how to be by yourself, what you gonna do with somebody else? Stop praying about it. Shut up and wait. Go work on you. H___, that's what that time is for to get yourself together. I'd rather be in the corner by myself with a puppet and a goldfish, and be happy than to be sitting around with somebody in my house, and I'm wondering "what the h___there for?: