A Question Answered!

Hi Friends,

Hope you'll are all doing well. I am having a blast and just can't seem to get enough of my vacation........its hard to believe that the days have zoomed past and this is my last week of the break, for the time being at least!

It's always gratifying to read comments from friends and to know that they appreciate your work! SO, this is an acknowledgement t0 all those people who bother to regularly look up my blog and go over my writings and let me know what they think of them!

Now, my dear friend Dhiraj, went through the piece "When it's hard to hold on, it's best to let go!" He found a couple of loose ends in the article and wrote to me seeking a clarification! This is what he wrote:

"Well I just wanted to know what do u do once you let go and memories keep coming or sometimes haunting back ??? "

Hmm......thought-provoking! Now this is what I really like....when people dig up loopholes in an article and give me an opportunity to explore the more subtle nuances therein. What follows now is my reply to him!

Now, to begin with, the article that this question relates to is not entirely about memories. It’s more about situations. What was actually intended in the article was to elaborate on a simple age-old blatant truth, which is that - SOME THINGS ARE JUST BEYOND OUR CONTROL. It is more a manifestation of another age-old adage, "What will be, will be!" "When it is hard to hold on, it is best to let go" applies to these circumstances which are supposedly destined and nothing in an average human's power can stop them from occurring. In such cases, you need to relinquish your position, your stand and let nature take its own course, destiny have the upper hand because that IS the best you can do.

Coming to memories, they are an important part of one's existence. They are, more often than not, the driving force behind a person's choices, decisions and prerogatives. It is surely not easy, rather impossible, to let go of them, particularly the bad ones. However, in this case, let go means to refrain from allowing those memories to become a permanent obstacle in one's daily life. To let go means to push them far back into one's sub-conscious mind so that one is not clinging on to them for dear life! Yes, they do sometimes keep coming back, haunting. Even then, you need to let yourself be in control and not get overwhelmed by them. You need to keep letting go each time they come back. Over a period of time, you will find that they don't haunt anymore - even if they DO keep coming back!

And as Dhiraj rightly pointed out, "in course of time, you start looking at the brighter side of all those memories and just move on. And then one day you just look back and say or croon like Bryan Adams "Those were the best days of my life". I couldn't have summed it up better!

Well, that's all for now and I hope this answers any questions any of you may have had regarding the article in question and that I have done due justice to those!

Till next time, from Slo, this is Tally-Ho!!!!!!!!!!!!