Tuesday, April 22, 2014

Why do we hold on?


Sometimes you have to let go to see if there was anything worth holding on to.......

Tiara is an attractive young lady in her late twenties. Though she has been approached by many who want to spend their lives with her, she is still single. She is clung to her old memories, memories of the one she thinks she loves. Whenever any guy tries to befriend her, she puts a wall around her. She treats them like intruders.

Why isn’t she able to give other guys a chance to know her? Who knows that if she does, she might even find yet another ‘perfect’ man? Just like her previous one?

But she doesn’t because she is so comfortable in the memories of her previous love and doesn’t want anyone to take her away from those memories. What she doesn’t realize is that memories, just like the person in it, fade away slowly with time.

Maybe it is because when you think you really love “the one” that lives in your past, you tend to compare any tom, dick and harry that you meet, with him. Comparison makes you unable to accept a new person in your life. You feel that there is really no point in making new connections. You’d rather try and make amendments with a person that you already know and with whom you are so comfortable.

And so, whenever a new person tries to know you, you’re like “sorry, no vacancy in my heart. Move on”…


Ironically, nostalgia isn’t what it used to be, everything changes with time, even the memories. So instead of just clinging to the thoughts of the one you think you love, it’s better to let people come into your life. You might not always end up meeting great people but isn’t life supposed to be full of experiences? And doesn’t the very thought of exploring and getting to know new people intrigue you? Don’t you want more than cushioned feet??