Monday 21 April 2014

Letting Go...

Dear Aphrodite,

Sometimes in life you have to just let go. I am a person who believes in second chances but if the door of that gets shut in your face, or sadly the chance is simply not there to take, the only remaining option is to let go.

Putting your heart on the line is the biggest risk you can take, which is why most people don't do it lightly, and some, sadly, don't do it at all. I want to say that it is so worth it, all of it, the falling, the just being, and when it ends, although it is the worst pain of all, I suppose if it really hurts then I guess you know it was all real.

Letting go, grieving, tears, they all are part of the same thing, but when it all gets hard you cannot wish you hadn't been in love because it is the best thing of all and you will find it again. If it wasn't the case then the world would be a very sad and lonely place, and not the beautiful place of wonder that it is.

No matter who you lose in life, or how you lose them, they will have changed you for the better and you'll of made an impact on their lives for the better too. 

This idea is summed up in the song "For Good" from the musical Wicked, when life forces two friends to live apart. I wanted to finish this post with the core part of the lyrics, just as they both realise how important they were to each other


[GLINDA:]
I've heard it said,
That people come into our lives
For a reason
Bringing something we must learn.
And we are lead to those
Who help us most to grow if we let them.
And we help them in return.
Well, I don't know if I believe that's true
But I know I'm who I am today
Because I knew you.

Like a comet pulled from orbit
As it passes a sun,
Like a stream that meets a boulder
Halfway through the wood.
Who can say if I've been changed for the better
But because I knew you.
I have been changed for good.

[ELPHABA:]
It well may be
That we will never meet again
In this lifetime.
So, let me say before we part:
So much of me
Is made of what I learned from you.
You'll be with me
Like a handprint on my heart.
And now whatever way our stories end
I know you'll have rewritten mine
By being my friend.

Like a ship blown from its mooring
By a wind off the sea.
Like a seed dropped by a sky bird
In a distant wood.
Who can say if I've been changed for the better
But because I knew you...

[GLINDA:]
Because I knew you...

[BOTH:]
I have been changed for good.

All the best to all of you out there, and Aphrodite thank you,
 
Amber xx♥

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