Of Endings

Everything good must come to an end

Endings...

Another in life’s long list of constants…

We face em on a regular daily basis… we grew up with endings happening all over the place… we have become so used to it we no longer notice them happening… we barely notice this important pivots in life… so much so we completely fail to comprehend its importance and how much it affects on life… We watch em in movies… we read them in novels (regardless how bad the novel is)… we hear of them in fairy tales and such…

So why does one need an ending???

An ending – as the very essence of the word indicates – provides one with closure, it –lacking any other word fit to describe it – marks an end to a certain aspect in ones life… An optimist would say it marks a new beginning in ones life but then again who has ever actually listened to one of those before… But just because something ends it doesn’t necessarily mean that it has a pessimistic connotation over the matter at hand…

Picture a journey with no end… why even bother continuing the journey if it was to never end? Why not just stop and enjoy what one has and just settle down? The very reason to which would drive one to take the choice of settling down is for one to enjoy and savor what one has worked for ones lifetime before one kicks the bucket… Endings give the story a meaning… the journey on which one has traversed gives one satisfaction upon ones arrival at ones destination… and most importantly death gives meaning to life… so for those of you who dream of immortality, I say screw it and just enjoy life as you wait for it to come to an end… and to those optimists who say endings mark a new beginning, I dare say they quite enjoy the little endings they go through in life in which one can further postulate they look forward to dying… now that doesn’t sound very optimistic now does it???

Life Without Death is Meaningless

I posed a question to two different “test subjects” (other people would call them friends… god knows why they do such atrocious things) I asked what were you to do if left in a situation in which nobody gets out of it alive.

Test subject A replied “I’d just say thank goodness I had a wonderful life”

Test subject B replied “I’d stop wherever I am and not move forward the slightest bit”

Obviously the person to date here would be test subject A… one learns to embrace death has learned how to live ones life… Test Subject B on the other hand suffers from a complex in which one is never satisfied with what has happened and constantly asks to oneself what if I did this and that differently… Death gives life meaning and from that we postulate that for one to properly live one must die… another in life’s long list of irony…

The question of dating these test subjects I mentioned is completely immaterial to the grander scheme of things… exposing their identity would be a breach of an unsigned contract… and as to commenting on their gender would be highly unprofessional and sexist of me… sides you can never be too sure these days… In simpler and politically incorrect terms I’m just being an ass simply because I can… :P

~SEMPER FI~