of the word 'release'. If we don't, for some reason or the other, release the past, it continues to have a hold on us. Thing is that whether that hold is good or bad or sad or ugly or happy or beautiful, it has an effect on the present. But if we are to move on, then we have to resolve and release the past...think, good memories make you want to look back, and bad/sad memories make you want to forget. Either way, they dampen the present. But memories are just that - memories. Draw lessons from them, or enjoy them, but leave them where they belong - to ,and in, the past...