There is a strange thing that hums beneath the casual relationship between people, or so we can assume by the day-to-day theatrics of the human experience. You can see it at dinner tables and in office hallways, between former friends, beneath the invisible separator of lovers. It is an impulse to interrupt, to fix, to control the course of events. It's in sentences like "Why would she do that?" or "If the guy would just listen to me." The Let Them Theory suggests something revolutionary: Instead of resisting the way other people do things, we just not.The first time I heard this idea, it struck me as both self-evident and subversive. Certainly, individuals are at liberty to choose for themselves. But do we act as if we believe that? More often, we hover anxiously at the edges of someone else's life, trying to steer their path, or tether them to our expectations. The Let Them Theory encourages us to relax that hold — not in defeat, but in curiosity.
There is a strange thing that hums beneath the casual relationship between people, or so we can assume by the day-to-day theatrics of the human experience. You can see it at dinner tables and in office hallways, between former friends, beneath the invisible separator of lovers. It is an impulse to interrupt, to fix, to control the course of events. It's in sentences like "Why would she do that?" or "If the guy would just listen to me." The Let Them Theory suggests something revolutionary: Instead of resisting the way other people do things, we just not.The first time I heard this idea, it struck me as both self-evident and subversive. Certainly, individuals are at liberty to choose for themselves. But do we act as if we believe that? More often, we hover anxiously at the edges of someone else's life, trying to steer their path, or tether them to our expectations. The Let Them Theory encourages us to relax that hold — not in defeat, but in curiosity.
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