As We Move On In Life, There Are People That We Have To Let Go.

There are people that we let go by circumstances. Life takes us into a different path and we start to live a new life with new people, leaving behind some of the people we used to know. There are also people that we let go by choice. Maybe because we feel that these people are not influencing us in a good way. Maybe because we feel they're holding us back and keeping us from reaching our best potential. Or maybe because we simply feel that we have already grown apart from these people and our values have already changed.

Letting go by choice is not easy, especially if the people we've let go are people that we deal with everyday. Relationships are already complex as they are, and they can get even more complicated when issues like letting go are involved.

I guess the key to avoid all these is to do the letting go gracefully. However, being graceful is not always easy in these instances (especially for someone like me who is not really a people person). There will be heartaches. There will be awkwardness. And there might even be grudges.

That said, let us remember that situations like this call for honesty more than anything else - that is, honesty to ourself. We can't be passive during these instances and we cannot allow fear to keep us from doing what we must do. We must be brave enough to let go and go away if we are to save ourself.