LETTING GO

It’s very hard to let go, even if others might think it’s easy or others think it’s easy for you – it never is.

Whether it’s a thing (yes, one can get attached to inanimate objects) or a person (forming a deeper attachment), it’s never easy. For anyone.

You might laugh, some cry, most hide it behind instinctive sense of self - that thing we call ‘pride’. Maybe pride wouldn’t have any place in certain situations… but sometimes, its just kind of there and you can’t really do anything about it.

People do different things to forget, even for just a moment, that they hurt. They sometimes go slightly crazy, as un-like them as possible for a while. Some drink to forget, or worse do drugs and the like. Some throw themselves into work, keeping busy to avoid thinking about what had just happened. Some become depressed, almost catatonic, and it takes a while for them to feel remotely human again. Some do something incredibly reckless in the hope that an adrenaline rush will give them the escape they seek.

Whatever the means one goes through the help them get through difficult times is, as I always say, to each his/her own. But they do their best to get through it…

On that line of thought… life throws us obstacles to "make us stronger", right? True, but sometimes I wonder, just how strong are you supposed to be? Is your ‘strength’ supposed to be tested again and again and again? When will it even stop? When will life take a step back, look at you, and marvel that, yes indeed, you need not undergo trials cause you’re strong enough already? Is it in dying that the world finally does just that? Telling you, "That’s it, you did it, congratulations – you achieved your utmost strength. Now it’s time for you to go."

Or, like a seasoned warrior, I suppose ‘strength’ has to be constantly tested because it’s the only way to be the best, because it’s the only way to know yourself more, to know others more. It’s a way to develop your skill, hone your instincts, develop yourself physically and mentally (as well as emotionally). But, more importantly, life constantly tests our ‘strengths’ since it’s the only way to grow – in fact, it’s the only way to live.