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Holding on and Letting Go

When do you hold on? And when do you let go?

At various times in my life, I’ve been clinging to a hope and recieved differing forms of advice. For example, when I was a teenager I remember breaking up with a girl and then wanting to get back together with her. She wasn’t really responding.

Some of my friends said, hold on, don’t let her go, keep pursuing.

Other friends said, you need to let go, get over her; don’t hold on, it’s time to move on.

I’ve had this replay several times in my life, most recently when I was trying to start a business that was having a hard time getting going and didn’t seem like it would turn around anytime soon.

How do you know when to hold on, and when to let go? When is it right to hold on? And when is it right to let go?

When is a hope no longer worth hoping for?

Have you ever given up on a dream? Why did you finally let go of it? Why didn’t you hold onto it?

August 11, 2005 | Filed Under Misc 

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One Response to “Holding on and Letting Go”

  1. Porter on August 29th, 2005

    Sound like one of “those days”. I realized I needed to let go of my hope and dream of being a professional athelete when I realized I wasn’t all that professional nor much of an athelete. It’s a give and take thing I guess. I gave myself a dream, and then took way too long to realize I’m just not good.

    But I digress. It really is a tough call–especially if you happened to have felt “impressed” to move forward in the first place. Who knows but what you were supposed to learn something that had nothing to do with the actual dream, but with other life events that will in some future time help make you what you truly need to be. Hind sight is 20/20, but foresight is like 20/666 I think.