I Have to Let You Go

If we never let go of the past, we can never appreciate the present, so as the future.

That’s why I had to forget how embarrassing my first communion was, when I sort of accidentally bit the hand of the priest and he glared at me. I heard some of my classmates, teachers and the choir laughed and I went off trembling. Then later on, I found myself crying. That experience taught me not to talk to a priest again. I was barely 9 years old then. I could still laugh at the thought, especially the look on the priest’s face… hehehe… I can still remember it, but for sure, I have gained the confidence to converse with a priest again.

That’s why I have to let go of the hope to retrieve my sweet memories with my peers during my high school days. I kept the memories but I’ve learned to let things happen naturally. My friends are on their own ways now, after all. A couple of them married, some go abroad, and others are so far away. I can’t afford the frustration of making us a whole again. If I hanged on to such hope, I wouldn’t have appreciated the company of my college colleagues.

That’s why I have to alter my job with a better one and let go of the memorable experiences attached to the previous one. Or else I wouldn’t be able exercise my skills in the field it suits best. And I wouldn’t have known more memorable moments are laid ahead of me.

That is the reason why we have to let go of our deceased loved ones. They said if there is come, there is go. Like the dear new things we possess, they will soon wear out. Their sentimental values will be kept but we won’t always see them as new as they used to be. And if we continue to keep them, no matter how rotten they are, we will never think of buying a better one. Like our loved ones, we have to let them go, so that we may get the chance to meet the others.

And that’s why I have to forget you. Coz if I continue to hope that you’ll come back, I may never meet my other half. And if you are my other half or if by some chance we are meant to be, you’ll return to me. If by that time, you are already being replaced, you have to move on with your life and not cling on our yesterdays.

Coz if we never let go of the past, we can never appreciate the present, so as the future.[Dedicated to my once dreamed man...]