We all have that one person, our go-to when it seems like no one else wants us. That person you know will always be there for you when you feel lonely and need some company. And no, I'm not talking about your best friend. Im talking about your back up plan. The boy or girl who lived next door when you were kids. Your first crush, first kiss, the one who was always there for you after every breakup and heartache. The one who makes you angry and jealous every time they start dating, because they were your first love and you don't want to let them go. But you have to.

We all need to let go and say goodbye to our past. Whether they were your first crush, your high school sweetheart, or the one that got away in college; it's time to let them go and move on with your life. There are success stories of people who met again later in life and they now live happy lives together, but you can't hold onto that fairytale as a fall back if life doesn't work out the way you want it to in the amount of time you want it to happen. You're never going to make a wrong decision if you take care of you first and make a life for yourself.

I've seen many cases where people are afraid to move on in life because they feel safe where they're at, or are too afraid of making the wrong choice and will regret it later. People say that they don't want to leave because "He's the father of my child," or "No one else will love me or understand me like they do," but what I have to say is "How do you know?"

We can't hold on to our past; as much as we'd like to stay in that familiar zone, we can't. Once we are able to realize this, then we will be able to see the truth. That we aren't in love with the person, we're in love with who they used to be. We all grow up--some faster than others--but not everyone grows up together like we sometimes see in movies. There comes a time in our lives when we have to go our own way and go in the direction we were meant to travel down, and sometimes that is a lonely one.

Now by no means is this a way of me saying that we all need to say goodbye and break up even if we are 25 and have been together since high school. We all just need to realize that we all have our own paths and journeys to go on and they sometimes lead down different roads. Sometimes they cross again or join back up, but you'll never know unless you take the journey, wherever it may lead. Its like Forrest Gump always said:

And it's true, you never know what you're going to get if you never try.