When do you know when to give up? When do you let go of something you treasure so much? For many of us, letting go is the hardest thing to do. And, for many of us, determining when to let go is a major weakness. Indeed, letting go is not as easy as taking your clothes off. It’s like falling from the fiftieth floor of a building and yet after the fall you realize that you are still alive. For some, they’d prefer to hold on and bear the prolonged agony. But would it be better if you bravely face the pain of letting go and, then after, give yourself enough time to heal. What is the essence of holding on, when the reason why you are still grasping has already let go? Why would you still hold on to the stem of a rose and bear the pain of touching the thorns when the petals have already withered? Why would you still continue fighting in a war when you know that you have already lost before it had begun? For a heart that truly loves and values someone, answers to these questions would seemingly be unclear. Perhaps, some wouldn’t know it at all, because a heart that loves, cares and values deeply bears all the pain and numbs himself from the fierce flames life has to offer. A heart that hurts much yet loves truly only realizes that he should let go when he is already weakened by life’s strong blows and when all hopes fade and all he could do is accept the harsh reality that fate has closed the doors on him.
Aforementioned in a famous movie, it said that you should let go when you realize that there’s no turning back anymore. Consequently, letting go means embracing a new and different world. It implies that when you let go of something, you have to leave all the hurts and grudges behind and move on to what is in store for you in the way ahead. One cannot achieve eternal peace by dwelling in the past and convicting himself in his dark memoirs. It is, but, in forgetting and forgiving wherein one could free himself from all of life’s anxieties and enables himself to lighten his load. Why keep grudges and burden yourself when you know doing this wouldn’t be of any benefit to you? This is one of the common mistakes, we, humans unawarely do. We dwell on our pasts and complicate our future. Logically, why would we make this chaotic world, even more chaotic? Why complicate things when there is an easy way out? In deeper thought, why would we plant a pine tree in the midst of the Sahara desert?
Indeed, the pain of letting go wouldn’t just fade overnight. It wouldn’t just vanish in a blink of an eye or in a flick of your fingers. Perhaps these would take a years and years of deep sleep before the pain fades away. This might seem barely unbearable but along in the process, time flies fast and wounds heal before you know it. Counting the days wouldn’t be of much help to you, but enjoying these days and uncovering the sweetness of life little by little enables you to build up enough hope in your heart and gives you a reason to keep fighting. There is the process, you would find enough strength to withstand all the blows of life. Let’s not waste every day of our lives for time is very precious to be wasted over childish matters. Bear in mind that the coming of every morning marks a new beginning for each one of us. The coming of each day builds up hope deep within us and makes us grow fonder. Also, always bear in mind that the setting of every sun behind the peaceful mountains tells us that we should also burry whatever burdens we have in a bottomless pit and never dig it again.
