On letting go and moving on…

Sometimes, there are names you’d rather not mentioned and stories not shared for it might once again open boxes that have been sealed for so long. Some memories are better off kept inside that little box in the corner of your room, because, once opened, the “there’s one time” stories will start to come out of your mouth again and the desire to know the “what ifs” will bother you once again. Everything else will keep on coming back to you… It’s a vicious cycle…and remembering is the saddest thing…


Letting go is not something you do in one sitting, it’s something you go through everyday, over and over and over…

-- Mic way back April 18, 2005


That is why it is so important (however painful it may be!) to destroy souvenirs, move, give lots of things away to orphanages, sell or donate the books you have at home, Everything in this visible world is a manifestation of the invisible world, of what it is going on in our hearts—and getting rid of certain memories also means making some room for other memories to take their place. Let things go. Release them. Detach yourself from them.


One has to know when a stage comes to an end. If we insist on staying longer than the necessary time, we lose the happiness and the meaning of the other stages we have to go through. Closing cycles, shutting doors, ending chapters…What has passed will not return…

-- Paulo Coelho (Closing cycles)

 

Letting go doesn’t mean giving up, but rather accepting that there are things that cannot be.
-- Anon


Let go. Why do you cling to pain? There is nothing you can do about the wrongs of yesterday. It is not yours to judge. Why hold on to the very thing which keeps you from hope and love?
-- Leo Buscaglia


If pain must come, may it come quickly. Because I have a life to live, and I need to live it in the best way possible. If he has to make a choice, may he make it now. Then, I will either wait for him or forget about him…Waiting is painful. Forgetting is painful. But not knowing which to do is the worst kind of suffering.

-- Paulo Coelho (text ni Mic sa akin August 18, 2006)


A clean break is easier. You can reset it, and it heals, and you move on, but if you leave things messy, and things don’t put right, then, it just hurts…forever.

--Little Black Book