Letting Go

Why is it so hard to let go?
I am sure many of us have felt this way where we are faced with a situation where we want to let go but it’s just so hard.

We fail to realize that what is ours today, was somebody else's yesterday and will be somebody else's tomorrow.
This could refer to our past, an incident, a person we love, a position we hold, a job we do, a house we lived in for years, or a car, etc.
Is letting go a bad thing to do? It never is. Or at least in most situations that I can think of tells me it isn’t

Letting go of something or someone simply means something better is coming our way.
As the famous saying by Alexander Graham Bell goes, “When one door closes, another opens; but we often look so long and so regretfully upon the closed door that we do not see the one which has opened for us.”

A friend mentioned the other day, she was finding it so hard to let go of her role as a manager for her team as she feels it’s like her baby and though she's gotten promoted to a Regional Manager. It just seems hard for her to let go not knowing how the team is going to take off without her and whether it will be all okay with a new person.
Usually what makes it hard to let go is when we have a strong attachment to something or someone, or the passion in something we do.

Is it good to have attachments? Some would say no and some would say yes.
I choose to say it all depends on what it is, and what’s the reason. As at this age and time, it’s pretty hard to be completely detached from everything.
However, I feel that even if we can’t be detached, the least we should do is, to learn to let go when and if it’s meant to go, knowing it wasn’t ours to begin with and that we gave our best.

I am still learning to let go off things in my life, especially things that are out of control and that are meant to go. I am keeping an open mind, having that faith, that there was a reason to why I had to let it go and only time will show.