What is an ending?
What is a beginning?
How much control should we have over either?
They do say that every ending is just the start of a new beginning. So, is an ending technically defined as meaning that the climax is over? Then, the beginning is just whatever follows the climax being over? Although this is sometimes hard for us to wrap our mind around, it is true. For example, when someone's life is over, here on earth, it signifies the beginning of mourning, but what is the new beginning for the person that has just passed? I know it's technically the beginning of life after death; the beginning of their judgment day. I don't really know what that means though.
Maybe that's one of the beautiful perks of life, we just don't know. Some argue that it's just too stressful and they'd just rather know already. I'll agree that it does cause the emotion of stress, but think of all the other great emotions we would never have if it weren't for unpredictability. Think how unfulfilling achieving a personal goal would be without unpredictability. The fact is people want unpredictability.
But how much unpredictability is too much? Take sports for example. The only reason sports are so popular are because the outcome and the events that take place during the game or race are never known. However, we always know almost the exact start time and the approximate ending time of a game or race.
The only thing for certain in life is uncertainty, but how much uncertainty do you want in your life? How much structure do you want/need? How do we control either?
Life. The World. Events. Beginnings. Ends. Where would we be without them?
<>< C. T. Gunn
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