Going South

Banksy ~ Girl and Heart Balloon

I usually go south - on holidays! To sunny Brazil, or even closer, to a sunnier country in Europe. But things can also go south in other ways, as the expression says...

The use of south as in the phrase go south stems from the 1920s, according to the Oxford English Dictionary, and it means downward or lower in value, price, or quality; in or into a worse condition or position. The reason South is correlated with down is because of its use in the standard Western set of cardinal directions.

In this meaning, it is better if things go south rather than you! And when they go, you just need to put your head up, look north and let it go.

I'm not saying it is easy

The art of letting things go is magical! It alleviates you from a burden - even if it is not a burden. Frees you from identification. So instead of kicking the can down the road - another gem - action promptly towards the solution by removing yourself from it!

When you are not there, no problem can affect you at all...