020 Letting Go of Your Best
Hey Peacock, every year once the season is over you shed your whole beautiful train, and every year you grow it back.
Can we let go of our best and trust it will grow back?
Could you let go of the best thing about you, and trust it to grow back?
In the monsoon, a peacock spreads his train: a hundred shimmering eyes, the most beautiful sight in the forest.
A few months later, the same peacock walks past with a short, plain tail. The train is gone.
What really happens
Once the breeding season is over, peacocks shed their long train feathers. It happens every year.
Then, slowly, they grow the whole train back in time for the next season.
How we know: Moulting after the breeding season is well documented in peafowl.
The turn
We hold on tightly to our best things: a title, a look, a skill, a success. We are afraid that if we let them go, they will never return.
The peacock lets go every year, and every year it grows back.
Three takeaways
- Your best season is not your only season.
- Letting go is part of growing again.
- What is truly yours can grow back.
The peacock does not lose its beauty. It renews it.
The snake that cannot cast its skin perishes. So too with those minds which are prevented from changing their views: they cease to be minds.