I don't want to let you go but it hurts my hands to hold the rope

Letting go of people is hard cause you invest so much in them than to let go can be scary. But it can also be liberating or even essential to your happiness. If you don't let go, you can find yourself in a dark place. Unable to kick your worst habits. And sometimes if we truly love someone, we have to be okay to letting go.

It comes to a point that you love someone so much. That even thought it hurts a lot to stay, you keep holding on. It's because you can always let go of all the pain, but never the little happiness you get out of loving that person. Well it's hard to get a grip when you're holding on to something you just let slip away.

There is a particular kind of suffering to be experienced when you love something greater than yourself. A tender sacrifice. Like the pained silence felt in the lost song of a mermaid, or the bent and broken feet of a dancing ballerina. It's in every considered step you're taking in the opposite direction of them.

The saddest part of letting go is the moment you step backward, turn around and walk away. You're waiting for a shout calling your name and begging you to stay. Then you leave with tears falling down from your eyes and the realization that the person you love is really never gonna run after you.

Don't chase anyone. Someone who truly loves and deserves you will walk with you and won't need to be chased.