When you open your hands to let go, you also open them to receive. Letting go often requires more strength than holding on. Life moves on and so should we.
There are enough platitudes about letting go on the internet to depress even the most optimistic of people. Isn’t that strange- that although letting go is opening the door to a new and better possibility, we can often have such a difficult time seeing and appreciating that newness because of how much we miss what is familiar (even if it wasn’t that great)?
And what a shame that though most of us embrace hockey as an escape from the negatives of real life going on around us, hockey coincides with real life and it’s real happenings an awful lot.