Let It Go By Sworima Bhandari

“Let it go.” A phrase I heard almost daily, but something that was always incomprehensible to me. Let it go. I always thought it was so easy for people to talk about letting go. How could someone let go of things that define their past, shape their present, and pave their future? I always thought the more you held onto things, the easier it became to live with them. 

Life happens to us and we happen to life, every single day. There are 86,400 seconds in a day; with each one, we breathe a fresh breath and with each fresh breath we experience something new. So do we hold onto all of those 86,400 tiny mishaps (or vice versa) or do we learn to let them go? 

The coffee you spilled while you were busy packing your bags for school? Let it go.The train you missed by a heartbeat because someone fumbled at the turnstile? Let it go. The lunch that you forgot to pack because you were too busy trying to name five things you saw and five

sounds you heard the night before? Let it go.

I have realized lately that the bravest thing a person can do is let it go. Do not let a single experience, be it good or bad, define you as an individual. Rather, be a mosaic of your experiences without letting anything affect your present.