To Let Go

She looked into the space as her eyes filled with a fresh set of tears. They traced the path made by the previous tears as they rolled down her soft cheeks. Despite the tears, she tried to smile. It has been a long time since she actually smiled. Letting it go was actually easier than she thought. She always felt that letting go is a very difficult thing and she recently realised that she gave up without even trying. And when she finally did try, she understood one can never forget and letting go certainly didn't mean forgetting. Letting go means to forgive. Not forget. It means to forgive and let all the weight get off your heart. It means to stop crying about the things that aren't worth of present but are things of the past. Letting go doesn't mean to delete that chapter of our life, it just means ending that chapter in our life. And now, when she has cut the final tie with that chapter and concluded it, tears first started to brim in her eyes threatening to come out at the first blink of her eyes and then started flowing uncontrollably. But those tears were the proof of her letting go and she didn't stop them nor wiped them. She cried until she decided that she shall not cry over an ended chapter ever again and started to smile through her tears and this time her smile was stronger and she made a promise that she wouldn't let the smile wipe off her face again over something so trivial as an ended chapter. And that she'll keep the lessons learnt from that chapter with her forever.