Let it go

"Let it go."  I hear this phrase a lot in life.  It's good advice from time to time.  I most often hear it said about matters that are minor irritants.  But, I also hear it from professional counselors on television when they advise people to move on with their lives.  They are told to let go of abuse, neglect, kidnapping, verbal lashings, submission, and other behaviors.  It is hard for people to let things go of such a major nature.  It takes time and the willingness to move on without allowing the matter to influence their futures.

So much happens in life that it is easy to let most matters go.  Experience allows a person to learn which battles are the important battles, the matters that one shouldn't let go.  This experience also helps a person build a priority list, values in ascending order.  The higher up the priority list a matter is, the less likely it is for someone to let that matter go.  If  a matter is at the top of the list, a person is not going to let that matter go.

Sometimes, the top priority is a hope someone has; it will remain intact. 

 The person won't let that hope go... ever.  I know this first-hand.  It is the hill worth dying on.