There is an art to letting go.
I don’t mean in relation to people. I mean to ideas, goals, investments, and businesses that are just no longer working for you, or are making you unhappy, or are no longer providing or serving your original want.
As an example I created a web site some years ago as part of a business idea. I invested a lot of time and effort in it, but it became a chore. I held onto it thinking that it will do well soon, but it started costing me lots of time and money. Eventually I realised that my heart wasn’t in it any more. I’d lost interest and the drive to make it into something had gone. So I let it go. I shut it down and let the domain expire.
Another time I had this company that I started from scratch and built up into a fun business. Then circumstances changed and I made it dormant, effectively parking it for a while. But then a while became more than a year and I still had to pay fees and insurances even though it was not bringing in any money. I finally decided to let it go. I closed it down. It was both sad and freeing.
It has taken me a lot of practice but learning when to let something go is a useful skill. It’s not quitting, it’s knowing when something has come to an end and it is time to let it go.