Letting go

As we mature and age, 'letting go' is generally seen as something to be commended, celebrated, respected. Letting go of vain ambition, resentment, discontent, regret, attachment. Sommehow we think it is part of a higher state of being. Yet there are exceptions. We generally cannot accept a letting go of our engagement with direct experience or with our own history. Loss of memory, loss of mental faculties: that is a letting go too far for us. What is it we wish to hold on to?