Letting go

Habits are really hard to suppress. When you reproduce a behaviour a high amount of times, and becomes a habit, it’s really hard to let go that from your daily routine.

This gets really worse if you create a habit linked to a person. Imagine you wake up daily and you have the habit to connect or engage with a particular person. Now imagine you can’t do that anymore now because that person is gone from your life.

When you need to let go someone, dump them out of your mind or erase them from your normal routine. This gets exponentially worse.

Letting go in today’s heavily-informed and connected era of digital communications can be extremely hard. There will always be some sort of digital footprint that reminds you of that person that became a habit on your life. There’s always something that brings back the memories in a heartbeat and splashes your brain with an emotional burst. I’m not saying that there will be always negative emotions but they will, somehow, affect you in a way you might not be prepared to.

These triggers nowadays could present to you in the form of an old Facebook picture, conversation logs, or just a simple faved tweet.

But in order to move on, you will always need some sort of closure. You need to come in peace with your brain & your heart. You need to start functioning like a whole human being again. And you need this soon.

This reminds me of Black Mirror’s S02E01 (which I encourage you to watch) in a lot of ways. Are we really able to let go? Do we really want to let go? Or do we keep storing digital memories in order to feel ok with ourselves?

These questions spin in my mind.