mgaunard parent
Letting go means stopping to care. That's a slippery slope to coasting.
> Letting go means stopping to care.
This reasoning (which I can easily identify with) is a slippery slope towards OCD anxiety and depression when you refuse to acknowledge that you can't fix everything.
You need to be realistic, set your priorities within a limited, defined context, take decisions and actions based on those, and forget about the stuff that didn't make your priority list.
That's not not-caring. That's focusing on what really needs your care.
Wish I was better at it though.
I think the Buddhists would disagree with you on the moral valence of this.
There's plenty of Western philosophy as well that sees "not caring" (at least not about things outside your own actions) as very desirable. Not to mention the Epicureans, for whom freedom from worries ("ataraxia") was the highest attainable state.
OP's fear of (being seen to be) "coasting" would be entirely foreign to them.