There's a Lesson To Be Learned From This - Perhaps?

"The roller-coaster ride we took is nearly at an end.
I bought my ticket with my tears, that's all I'm gonna spend.

And I think it's gonna be alright.
Yeah, the worst is over now.
The mornin' sun is shinin' like a red rubber ball."
~ Paul Simon, "Red Rubber Ball"

How do you tell someone whom you told, "I hate you", that you don't, really? And that the pain with which you lashed out was never a lie, but always your truth? And, while hurtful, it was just an extension of the 'longing'? And that being in the city today which the two of you once shared, at least in part, made the pain and longing dig even deeper?

Will you ever be forgiven? Or are you doomed to repeat it? And is that what the other fears?

Can we ever forget our own emotional crises long enough to see that others share them, too?

Sometimes, we just have to let go. Maybe that's the lesson to be learned. But sometimes the letting go is the hardest part of all.

It's human nature to grip tight, especially to things you've loved for so long, dreams you've dreamed for a lifetime, and hope you've held on to when it all seemed hopeless.

We have to learn to release. It takes strength to hold on, but even more strength to let go.