Each year's end is neither an end nor a beginning but a life moving on, with all the wisdom and experiences can instill in us.
To let go of the past, does not mean you will have not learned from it, it just means it will help guide the ways ahead.
Good memories help us get through times when we think our lives have had no meaning; they especially assist when you have an individual or others to recall great experiences with.
Letting go of the past is tough at times, it is like times when your wife tells you to throw away an old shirt you still feel comfortable in, even though it may have a few small holes or tares, but it is relaxing and good to excercise in.
But times that shirt is not just comfortable it still has meaning and remembrances, if it is an old baseball or basketball team shirt, or one that was given to you from good friends.
It usually not what it looks like is why you hold on to it, but the feelings and times it brings back, the good times that will never be lost or forgotten.
So letting go of old shirts that are stained and torn is hard, but it is just like, old uncomfortable feelings that needs to be released. The time finally comes letting go of an old shirt that you may not even wear or need, but it takes the space from a new shirt that will feel and look better each day ahead.
Creating new inspiring times, that just after become good recollections for the road ahead. It will be like your wife buying you a brand new shirt.
When you start hearing someone telling you “that shirt has a hole” and you keep it, new and good times are being or have been created to dwell upon.