Letting go has never been a strength of mine. Never realised until recently that it may be one of my greatest weaknesses.
Sometimes you need to let things go, let mistakes go, let memories go, let people go and yet I cling onto them for dear life. It hurts people, it hurts me and yet I can’t for the life of me cut the rope. It’s like they’re lifelines and if I cut them then that’s it, I’m dead, or it’s as if they are the only things keeping me ashore and if I let anyone of these things go then the winds will take me and suddenly I’m lost at sea.
These things, memories, mistakes, places, people, they get under my skin. They know how to get under my skin. They don’t realise that once they are there, once they wiggle themselves there that I can’t just let go. It’s not in my nature to just let go, to give up.
I’m afraid to let go, even when I know it causes more damage to keep hold.
I want to apologise really. To those out there that I can’t let go, that I’m not sure how to let go. For some of you that’s okay, you don’t realise that you’re still under my skin, so it’s just me that’s still hurting, not you, you don’t have a clue. But there are others out there who get hurt because I can’t let go and so keep on trying, keep on trying to hold on. But it’s not working, and I’m trying. By god I’m trying. But It’s so hard, I don’t work like that. I want to keep everything, cherish everything, save what I can. So I’m sorry. But not just to you people, places, mistakes, memories and things but also to myself. I’m sorry I put you through this. You have to forgive yourself for this, but I know it’s hard. Maybe one day we’ll be able to but for now all I can provide are apologies.