Let Go, Because When You Do...

.... a star falls from the sky and into your hands. Then it seeps through your veins and swims inside    your blood and becomes every part of you. And then you have to put it back into the sky. And it's the  most painful thing you'll ever have to do and that you've ever done.

Have you ever had to let go of that one person you thought you’d always be around? Of that one thing that meant the world to you? I am assuming you have. We all have, at some point of our lives, we all have. What determines our happiness and our strength is how we respond to letting it or them go.

We human beings never really give much thought to what would happen if that one person decides to just stand up and walk away. Do we have the courage to move on with our lives? Are we strong enough to finish this journey of life alone? Can we really make it without friends to laugh with or without being loved and cared for?

The very thoughts of letting go of a special person or of letting out our emotions, scare many of us. We are scared of not being able to make it through. Of rejection. Of being hurt. Of hurting. Of not being good enough.

We’ve all said things like, “Just ten minutes more. I promise I’ll leave after that.”

Let me ask you this, does the pain reduce? No. Whether you leave at that moment, or ten minutes later , or half an hour later, or a month later, it’s going to hurt all the same. The pain does not subside and we don’t heal. So the point is that no matter how much time we get to spend with that person, the time we leave, it’s going to hurt. Whether we like it or not.

There is happiness and there is sadness. There’s hate and there’s love. There’s success and there’s failure. I don't think we ever heal. We just get used to the pain and learn to live, forget and 
move on.

While most of us avoid getting attached to someone for the fear of being hurt, some of us get attached to them anyway. There is something about letting go of your pent up emotions and feeling the love and the happiness despite knowing the fact that there is a possibility that it may not last forever. But wouldn't you rather get hurt after those beautiful moments and memories than never be a part of them at all? I definitely would. At the end of the day, all good things do come to an end, right?

I staunchly believe that when something is meant to be, it will happen. Whether we make the effort or not. The people who are meant to be in our lives will be there. Always. And those, who are not, wont. No matter how much we want them to be. We've all had to let go of those special people , at some point of our lives, let go of those whom we thought we couldn't live without. I had to too. It was at that time that a friend of mine told me that the very fact that I was still around, proved that I was ready for more. That I could leave them behind and accept life as it unfolds.

So I say, go ahead. Trust someone. Treasure someone. Get hurt. Know what it feels like to lose someone special. Life really wouldn't be fun if everything went right. We have a lot to be thankful about.

Also, as we all know, we don't really have any reason to be upset about something isn't a part of our lives anymore. But, we do have a reason to be happy that it once was a part of our lives.
And again, what's meant to be, WILL come back to you.

  .... a star falls from the sky and into your hands. Then it seeps through your veins and swims inside your blood and becomes every part of you. And then you have to put it back into the sky. And it's the most painful thing you'll ever have to do and that you've ever done. But what's yours is yours. Whether it’s up in the sky or here in your hands. And one day, it'll fall from the sky and hit you in the head real hard and that time, you won't have to put it back in the sky again.” 

So, let go. Because when you actually do, you learn how to live life!

Cheers!