To let go or not

When something ends you are left with what now question. Your life as you knew it changes. Be it from a change in the family environment, change in career or maybe even a change in your country of residence. 

With the new year around the corner, a lot of us are pondering about 2015 and the changes (and continuity) we want it come with.  Also known has the famous new year resolutions, which more then often start and finish in January.

2014 was perhaps the best and most challenging year of my life, then again I say that every time. Perhaps because I feel comforted by the idea that there can be a clear beginning and end. This, however, brings another question into mind: to let go or not?

How do you know which things are worth holding onto and which aren't? How do you know which are the welcomed changes, that bring that greatuncertainty, and those changes which are you running away from yourself?

How do you know what you want? And I don't mean, do you really want that two week all-inclusive holiday, I mean what do you really want. How do you know what really makes you happy and how do you stay faithful to that ideal?

Maybe the only way we can answer this is if we take a step back (or two) and have a fresh opportunity to re-evaluate our life's. A dear friend said to me, "When I die, I don't want my grave to say the girl who lived with a broken heart. I want it to say, the girl who helped change the world". It's this same logic where another great friend of mine asked me, if I was to write an auto-biography would I be happy with the stories it contained?

A new year is a great opportunity to clearly ask yourself what is worth holding onto and letting go: what dreams to peruse and which to let go. Remembering always, that you cannot loose what was never was yours, and that what is yours, will always come back around.

Happy New Year!