"The End"

The End.  Isn’t it odd to read an article that starts with The End? Just like how we conform to the idea of typecasting and consistency, we forever think of ending as plainly as it seems, The End. After watching a movie or reading a book, we never get bothered on what will happen next to the characters. The story will linger in us for a while but soon it will be left in oblivion and even if we remember, only up to the act where the writer had ended it. Such ending happens only in reel, butin real life, it’s a different thing

The End. Sometimes we’re happy about it, but oftentimes, we fear it, hate it, avoid it, and deny it. We all know that everything will have to end sooner or later, but nobody believes it until the time has come and most of us unprepared. We’re taking things for granted, getting hooked with the materialistic things, falling hard in love with our present that leaving everything behind totally get us insane. Ending is not synonymous with leaving, goodbye, or dying. It just the end of the chapter and there’s a lot more to life after it.

Things that do matter are the beginning of something after the previous ending. What happens after closing the once open ended relationship? Where are you going after ending an employment? How will you move on from one episode to another? As the year 2012 will bid us goodbye, the year 2013 will greet us with lots of things it has stored for us. In between of yesterday and today, of people coming and going, of holding on and letting go, life takes another turn towards the inevitable changes with no other direction but moving on. But most of us get stuck somewhere in the middle of the past and the present. Together with the end of something, our life also stop from rolling to the road of adventure, figuratively it ended because we made our choice that way.

There’s no permanence in this world, and as they say, to be serious in life is no help because no one’s going to come out here alive anyway. So why not just enjoy and treat things with simplicity starting today? God has made life colorful and simple but man always trying hard to put things in black and white and that makes everything so complicated.

Forgive yourself for the wrong you did, for things you didn’t do and should have done, then forgive others for what they have done to you and to the people you love. Make peace with yourself and with everyone around you. We can build a better world by starting it within ourselves. Every ending is the start of something better, even the end of life here on earth promises a greater, highly rewarding beginning! Let’s all kick off the year with renewed hope, faith and love! Bid the ending with sweet goodbye and greet the beginning with hopeful smile!