Worldly advice from Ask MetaFil­ter.

How do you let go of love? […] For an added level of dif­fi­culty, this is a rela­tion­ship that you don’t really have any bad mem­o­ries of, so you can’t use those to change the direc­tion of your thoughts.

One piece of advice from me? Orig­i­nally writ­ten as advice on purg­ing book clut­ter, this is a pro­found state­ment that has already helped me in many areas of my life:

De-cluttering involves rec­og­niz­ing that regret is part of life, and being OK with that. Yes, I’ve given away books that I now often wish I still owned. But I’ve also screwed up rela­tion­ships, made iffy career choices, etc. — you suck it up and move on. If you try to cling to every sin­gle thing (mate­r­ial, spir­i­tual, or emo­tional) that you might need one day in the totally hypo­thet­i­cal future, you’re going to end up bogged down in a lot of stuff.

via Life­hacker