I Know You Don't Want to Hear This Now

I hate this topic. I am the queen of not wanting to let things go. Ask the first guy I ever fell in love with - it took me years to let go and realize that it just wasn't meant to be. I'll probably never be completely over the one man that I consider to be the love of my life. It's a very sad, ridiculously sappy story for another blog because this blog is all about how to let go. When it is all said and done, letting go is painful, but possible.

I recently started working on an art project that includes those "missed connections" that you see printed in the newspaper or on craigslist. Some of these posts are amazingly romantic - it's just people who want to find that person that makes them feel something. I just wish that life always worked out the way it does in movies - but it doesn't and letting go... well, maybe I can't really talk about that. My Pandora just started playing "Save Tonight" by Eagle Eye Cherry - the one song that always reminds me of that first Love- when we ran through the rain, laughing - when we carved our initials on the bridge over the river - when we niavely thought we'd be together our entire lives.

I guess there is a difference between letting someone go, because you realize he just isn't right for you and remembering the good times and stubbornly hanging on to something because you want it to be. Now is the time to stop and ask yourself if you're hanging on because you think it'll work, or if you're hanging on because you stubbornly refuse to accept the fact that it's just not meant to be.