As time goes on as I know it, There can be so much indicating that someone can care about that person and not even show it, what makes a person hold on to past feelings that they have for someone? Is it the warmth they seen in that person? Or is it the way they make them feel about themselves when they are around? These are the questions that are asked when you try to let go of a past love and still hold on.
A lot of us try to understand what makes us hold on to something that was there and long for it to happen again. As I learned in time, sometimes you don’t see the truth about things and only let the mind see what it want to keep the past alive, we all live in a fantasy about how things could , should, or would have been like if you was still with that person. Every thing that you hold on about that person, like holding on to an email or a picture  that keeps you there holding onto past times, your mind lets you see the things that you had with that person like a smile or a night out with them and the fun times that you had with that person. There is something that triggers memories of that person to keep us holding on, if it’s a good one or a bad one, but as soon as you see an open door , you take it, hoping that the relationship you once had with that person is still there, and maybe sometimes you might get lucky and start fresh where it went wrong, but most of the time it isn’t the same as before then you come in realizing that it was for the best to move on, and then once again your back to where you first started off at, trying to let go again.