Learning to let go

Letting go is a tough concept. Letting go of love, of people, of places; it's always hard. Unfortunately, life gives us that challenge. The challenge of letting go of your childhood and walking into the big doors of high school; letting go of the place you grew up in and everyone who'd ever been in your life; letting go of the person you fell in love with and everything they ever did to you; letting go of the people who have passed away and all the sorrow we keep for them. Sometimes, we even have to let go of ourselves. But what exactly is letting go of yourself? It's letting go of every preconceived idea we have of people, of the image we keep for society, of all the feelings we keep shut inside our heart and of everything everyone ever said about us. And what's left without all this is you. Just you and the pureness of your being. Yeah, letting go is a healing process. It hurts so much and you cry, you feel sad, you don't know what to do. But in time you get better, you grow. I'm not exactly saying that you forget; you don't. The thing you let go of becomes a beautiful memory in the ambiguousness of your mind.
And then there's a new chapter. You start over, fresh and new. With everything to do and it doesn't bother you. Because if anything happens, you know you're strong enough to let go.

Today I let go of middle school and will walk, this August, into the doors of high school. I let go of the pain of losing great people to Him. I let go of people I thought were my friends. Most importantly, I let go of feelings.

A lot of people are dealing with the same things I am,except a lot of people I know are leaving or have left. To other schools, other countries, heaven, but it doesn't matter. They're not being forgotten or saying goodbye, it's just a see you later.

Whatever's bothering you, let it go. And you know what the best thing is? We survive. :)