Abstract of Life

Let go

"Do you want to know why we have two hands?"

My boyfriend asked me once.

"Why?"

"The left hand is for us to know when to hold on, and the right one is for us to know when to let go." He asked staring at the azure sky.

Napangiti na lang ako. "Kung ano ano talagang naiisip niya."

Few months passed, we're silently sitting on the same place where he told me that.

"Do you remember what I told you before?"

"Yes, right hand is for letting go, left hand is for holding on." I answered with a beam plastered on my face.

But the smile on my lips suddenly vanished for what he said next.

"Now, can you please listen and used your right hand -- "

"Please let me go..."

On that moment, my mind became hazy as my heart broke into million pieces...