Play is related to 'letting go'
If you are unable to "let go" of the uncontrollables and unchangeables in your life, you could:
Become so obsessed with the need to solve everything on your own that you run the risk of physical and emotional exhaustion.
Never attain personal serenity and peace by accepting the human condition at work in your life.
Never establish an effective means of "handing over" to your Higher Power the "too big to solve" issues in your life and thus become bogged down in "chasing your tail" in these issues.
Never be at rest, always having these issues stirring up your emotional resources and energy.
Become anxious, stressed, insecure and depressed over these issues so much that your personal effectiveness lessens at home, work, school or in the community.
Become obsessed with these issues so much that they are the only topic of conversation or focus of attention you have in your life.
Be driven by the sense of failure, not being "good enough" or guilt for not fixing the issues and become depressed and very hard in your self-assessments until you believe that you are the failure who is out of control and needing to be changed into a perfect, all powerful, infallible being.
Become competitive with your Higher Power as the source of wisdom and light in the lives of those whom you are so desperately trying to control, fix and change.
Try to replace God by referring to yourself in terms only appropriate in describing your Higher Power because of your belief that you have the power to solve the unsolvable situations in your life. Because of this inflated ego and incapability of solving the unsolvable, your self-esteem and self-worth take a beating.
Exacerbate low self-esteem by becoming so obsessed with the sense of shame, guilt, failure and incompetence in not being able to solve your unsolvable problems.
Loss everything of importance by making such great sacrifices to save the things beyond your control that you lose everything in your life which gave it meaning including: marriage, money, success, business, jobs, children, relationships and even your life.
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http://www.livestrong.com/article/14701-letting-go-uncontrollables-and-unchangables/