KNOW WHEN TO LET GO

KNOW WHEN TO LET GO

Whatever begins will end, eventually. Things stop working after a certain period. Even after living for a long time, people die at some point. It’s just how things work. While you start doing a thing, you have to keep in mind how it’s going to end. Nothing is going to last forever and nothing should work forever. After a certain time, journeys should end, things should stop working, and people should die. Living forever is not a good idea; it’ll only hurt you and those who love you.
You know what, maybe it might have worked out if ageing wasn’t a thing. Ageing spoils everything. Time can, no doubt, make you experienced but it also takes away your zeal for life. You no longer see things in the same light as before, you no longer wish for the same things as before, and you no longer feel the same way about people as before. Once you’ve passed a particular phase of life, your needs change and so do your desires. But some people grow up faster. In a few years, they live a life of decades. While some grow tired of it in some days.
We keep saying, work hard, make money, learn to communicate so that good things would happen later on. But how long should one work to be finally able to enjoy life? What’s the point of all the good things when they don’t happen while you are still able to enjoy them, while you still have the energy to enjoy them? Is there fun in suffocating for decades just to enjoy a moment of freedom?
For me, it’s a little complicated. I always tend to overthink a little. It hurts me to see people who were once proud of their strength and courage, weak and dependent. People who once took care of others are in desperate need of someone’s care. It hurts me to see them dying every single day. I often think that things or people should stop working at once and not in intervals. But even at that time, I am only caring about myself and how it would affect me. Life drives me crazy and not just my life but of others as well. If I can’t fix something, I should at least have the courage to accept its flaws. But no, I can’t, because I don’t want to.
How do we really know that this person has reached the end and is dying now? Well, I think it is when they stop hoping. Hope keeps us alive. In childhood it’s the hope to grow up, after growing up it’s the hope to be successful, after being successful it’s the hope to rest after retirement, and after that it’s just the hope to die easily and win heaven.
That’s why I never stop hoping, it reminds me that I still am alive and breathing and that I haven’t yet reached the end. I hope things would get better and I keep telling myself that things are already better, it’s just that I am not able to comprehend them properly. After a certain age maybe I, too, will grow old and tired of things that now excite me, but I hope I never stop hoping and I hope I would become a sign of hope for those who are hopeless.
When you wish an end to something, it’s not necessarily because you hate them but because you love them a little too much. Wishing someone or something a peaceful end does not always make you a bad person. It’s better to vanish than to be in pain. And I am glad I realised this reality at an early age.
There are people for whom better things are waiting on the other side of this world and sometimes we should love them enough and be brave enough to let them go and find their solace there, without thinking about how their absence would affect us. And we ought to forgive those who already went there without leaving enough memories here, who left without saying goodbye because maybe they too were sick of hopelessness here and we couldn’t just be their hope. So, it’s better to let them go without feeling sad about it. Similarly, when things stop working, don’t overthink them and hurt yourself. Good things always keep coming and going, people keep coming and going, and we should be smart enough to know when to hold onto them and when to let them go. And that’s why I say, our biggest strength is to know when to let go.

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