A great life isn’t one without endings. It’s one where most endings were worth the tears.
STILLNESS
WHAT THIS MEANS
Trying to build a life with no painful endings mostly produces a life with very little in it, because the only reliable way to skip the goodbye is to stay out of the thing entirely. How much a loss hurts is a measurement of what it was worth. That does not make it hurt less, and it does change what the hurt means.
When something ends badly this year, let it be sad without concluding it was a mistake to begin. Then keep taking things on anyway. Nothing worth having arrives with the ending detached.
A QUESTION TO SIT WITH
Which ending in your life was worth every hard feeling?
MORE IN TIME, MORTALITY & LEGACY
- Old posts that make you cringe are proof you grew. Don’t delete your whole past; just don’t move back in.
- You won’t be remembered as the smartest or the fastest. You might be remembered as the one who always showed up.
- One day you’ll notice your mom’s hands look like your grandma’s. Hold them before that day surprises you.
Free, with nothing to buy inside it.