Letters of Life E-Book

Udo Hüttmann

• Herausgeber: novum publishing
• Kategorie: Gesellschafts- und Liebesromane
• Sprache: Englisch

Seitenzahl: 76

Veröffentlichungsjahr: 2025

Beschreibung

Self-assertion, charity, attitudes—we all have them. They strengthen and reinforce us, make us who we are. But how often do we rely on these inner strengths, our very own helpers, without ever letting them have their say? In 35 letters about life, Udo Hüttmann's attitudes, convictions, and abilities now turn to him – addressing him directly and seeking discussion. This does not always happen without conflict – because every relationship has its little struggles, the search for balance between the needs and wants of the partners, in order to ultimately find a common ground. It is the same with us and our inner helpers.

Leseprobe

Table of Contents

Life letters

Foreword

The journey

Epilogue

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Life letters

We can decide to listen to our inner voice and listen to it.

to follow our path in life.

Life letters to ourselves as unmistakable originals.

Udo Hüttmann

I would like to thank my wife Ruth,

who so lovingly accompanied me on my life's journey

and, in addition to content-related reflections,

with her illustrations for the

contributed to the design of the life letters.

Foreword

Dear readers, I wrote the life letters when I was in a certain inner distress and was looking for support. At the time, I felt like I was stuck in a traffic jam and couldn't get out of my comfort zone without a push or a kick from within.

This is how the first life letter, "Your Courage", was written to myself.

This life letter actually gave me energy, made me spread my wings and I suddenly and without realizing it - from 'above' so to speak - looked back on my six decades of life with all kinds of ups and downs.

In the weeks and months that followed, I realized that there were numerous other helpers or friends inside me who had helped me out of a lot of life situations and stood by me time and again. At first, I was only vaguely aware of my friends and gradually became aware of them, but then numerous qualities bubbled up from my inner source as life companions who have accompanied me - 'mostly in disguise' - through thick and thin. They have provided me with strength, perseverance, compassion, self-responsibility and many other (co-)human development potentials and have (often unconsciously) become my life's helpers. These helpers were well nourished by inner processes of confrontation and important fellow human beings so that they could grow up. Some took a little longer and others are still growing today and continue to be 'nurtured'. Thankfully, this inner development process never stops. As a result, I was somehow able to overcome highly stressful challenges as a social worker in the General Social Service of the Youth Welfare Office and in management positions , even if I did suffer a few (perhaps unavoidable) 'bruises'.

Above all, it is important to me that I have not only been able to maintain my positive view of people, but also to develop it further, as I have met so many great colleagues in my work who are committed to their fellow human beings and are always willing to go the extra mile.

But in almost all private and professional relationships, we are in contact with people who have to overcome challenges and who I would like to encourage with my life letters to get to know their inner helpers.

With my life letters, I am on my way and realize that there is still time for many inner discoveries that will give me strength and confidence for further development. Basically, my inner richness is what defines me and what I can live in contact with other people. So even at an advanced age, I sometimes feel like someone who can learn new things, remain flexible and constantly rediscover myself. I'm sure you too will remain young at heart if your curiosity never dies out. Just as Hermann Hesse writes in the last verse of his poem "Steps": "Life's call to us will never end ..., So long, heart, take your leave and be healthy!"

I hope that you, dear reader, will discover the wealth of inner helpers within you so that you can master every task in life with their support and assistance. I wish you an exciting journey to your inner helpers.

You will certainly get to know one or two of your inner friends better through the life letters and make friends. After all, you can never have enough good friends, inside and out.

The secret of happiness and the pinnacle of art is to live like everyone else and yet be like no one else.

Simone de Beauvoir

The journey

The copy and the original had known each other for ages. They were best friends and as inseparable as twins.

It happened again and again that they got mixed up with each other. Sometimes they were annoyed, sometimes they were amused and sometimes they played along. It even amused them when someone, believing they were dealing with a copy, revealed something about Original in confidence, especially when it was about conflicts or issues that the other didn't dare to disclose.

Over time, however, tensions grew in the relationship between the copy and the original, as they increasingly felt that they were only seen in the mirror of the other or were simply confused. As a result, the copy and the original were soon completely unsure of who they themselves were and perceived the other as a distorted mirror of themselves.

They somehow couldn't get away from each other and could no longer be together in their former harmony. Just being a double or doppelganger of the other or experiencing each other was not enough for either of them.

One morning, the copy and the original decided to go on a long journey with the aim that everyone would find each other in the end.

After many years of traveling, with countless experiences and meeting great people who became their life's treasure, they arrived at their destination. They had used all their character traits, strengths and weaknesses together to successfully overcome the trials they had encountered on their journey. At the summit of a legendary mountain, which they had chosen as the destination of their long journey, a hermit's hut awaited them. An old man stepped out and greeted them warmly, inviting them to take a seat and accept his hospitality. After the copy and original had enjoyed the food and drink and enjoyed the wonderful view in the midday sun, they felt themselves ready to let go, to shed the stresses and strains of the journey and be open to new experiences.

In the meantime, the old man had gone into his hut and returned with a velvet cloth. He opened the cloth and an incredibly large, beautiful diamond sparkled in the sunlight. Viewed from all sides, a spectrum of diverse colors became visible. When the old man asked what colors they saw, Copy immediately said, "I see..." - "No," said Original, "I see ..." Then the old man asked them to walk around the diamond and always take a different perspective.

Suddenly, the copy and the original burst out as if from the same mouth:

"We are unique in our diversity..."

"We need not pretend to be this or that, we may enjoy our diversity, as a unique symphony of all the qualities that become within us our melody of life, that brings forth our unique being from the diversity of inner qualities that helps us to live like everyone and be like no one else." Enjoy reading.

He who dares nothing must not hope.

Friedrich Schiller

Dear Self,

With my letter, I want to encourage you to really dare to do what your inner voice is increasingly urging you to do. If you keep putting it off, you will create an inner threshold that will seem insurmountable at some point.

You're drowning in your doubts, ifs and buts!

Your thinking revolves around the dangers of failure, faint-heartedness, indecision and the childish desire for unquenchable security and safety, where no decisions are necessary and others - parents, superiors ... - always make them for you.

Only if we always want to be in the safe hand of a decision-maker for our lives, never surrendering ourselves, opening our hand, releasing ourselves from it and spreading our wings to fly - because that's what wings are for - then we see nothing of the beauty of the world and know nothing of our flying skills.

Best regards

Your courage

There are many more copies among people than originals.

Pablo Picasso

Dear Self,

If self-doubt is once again weighing you down, shaking you back and forth, then stop the carousel of thoughts, get off and focus your thoughts on positive actions. Feel inside yourself what it is like to slowly become self-effective again, to take the reins of self-determined action back into your own hands so that after all the doubts, second-guessing and weighing up, your strong self takes over again.

There are often many voices that influence us, many roles that we want to fulfill. Ultimately, only we are responsible for ourselves and cannot avoid making self-confident decisions, risks or not.

We only gain certainty when we dare to do something, when we let go of what doesn't work or no longer works and do something else or different in order to gain new experiences in a self-determined way.

Become the director of your life script!