Letting go

Hey guys, I just wanted to talk about letting go, something that has recently impacted me. When I talk about letting go what I mean is, to let go of your hatred, or the past. I think this is important because a lot of people struggle with this, they hold onto hatred and pain from their past, they let it eat them up for the rest of their lives. I think that this is damaging because you should not hold onto hatred and pain, hold onto happiness and joy. I will use real life examples and examples from a video game that I love deeply. In my real life I have held hatred and resentment for people that have done me wrong, this is not healthy and it just hurts you. In Fallout New Vegas, specifically the DLC from the game, they ALL focus on letting go. In Honest Hearts, Joshua Graham, while seen as a wise religious figure, is not all that wise. He holds hatred in his heart for the legion because of what they did, he tries to get back at them. This is not good as it just keeps him in that place forever and he never grows. In Dead Money, Dean Domino is a 200 year old ghoul that is still trying to break into a casino of someone he hates, the person he hates has been dead for 200 years and yet, Dean Domino still holds hatred. This shows that Dean Domino hasn't let go, which the main message of Dead Money is to let go. Letting go is sometimes seen as weak but I disagree. I think that being able to let go is a very strong trait, so many people constantly hold hate in them and they dwell on the past, we see this in everything currently, nostalgia is at an all time high and everyone wants to live in the past, which is the opposite of letting go. One might say that I am hypocritical for saying this while using Spacehey, a retro social network, but, I think there is a difference between living mentally and emotionally in the past vs. taking things you like (despite their age) and incorporating them into your life, some times, tools from back then get the job done better today, so you should use those tools. This is no different. I think that our society is living in the past emotionally and I believe that is dangerous, we all focus on past conflicts and conflict in general but I think that it is all irrelevant. Finding peace from your past is difficult, however, you can still make an effort to improve and move forward. Like Dead Money says:

Finding it, though, that's not the hard part. It's letting go.