Letting Go

I'm trying to think of what to write and I still don't know. I just got done having a fabulous conversation with a new friend of what it means to let it go. Sounds pretty simple, just let go and move on, right? But sometimes it's not that simple, especially because I'm such an emotional person. Letting go is more than just moving on. It means letting go of the past as well and it's not that easy. Sometimes one simple word or place will remind me of the past and I'll get angry and there we go, feelings come back and it's then I realize, well, shit, I haven't let go. So, why hold on if it doesn't make me a better person? Because everything that is thrown at us, I believe, is to make us stronger and better. I don't have an answer but I do know that I need to let go in every way possible because I need to make a better life for myself and my children as well. So letting go means to close the chapters and start fresh. The past makes us who we are and without it, I would be a different Laura. But I'm a Laura now who has found her smile and to keep that smile around means letting go of the days when that smile was hiding.