The hardest thing to do in life is to let go. Our lives are so frail that we cling to what we have.
An abusive partner
Children even when they grow up
At least I have a job.
All of these give us security so we're not alone. But the reality is that we're never alone. If we have the power within us and the knowledge that we really never die how can we not learn to let go and move forward with our life?
In Gravity Sandra Bullock's daughter died on earth. She clung to the memory. But looking at this objectively from a long way off in space she realised how much she had impeded her earthly life by clinging to the past.
"What you have to learn is to let go', says George Clooney when he tells her to unhook him before he plummets into space.
Learn this great lesson to truly discard the past.