Celebrate endings, for they precede new beginnings. Jonathan Lockwood Huie
(It's almost a given that today's quote has to be about endings or some sort of completion because it's the last day of 2012.)
Endings and beginnings go hand in hand. They have to. You cannot have a beginning without something having ended. Only once in history can I think of a beginning occurring without an ending preceding it. Otherwise an ending comes before a beginning. The older I get the more I can appreciate endings. The better perspective I have on them. And the older I get the more peace I have about celebrating some of them! Some things must end and should end in order to make way for a new thing. And whether we admit it or not, whether we know it or not, we all want new things to happen. We really do. Celebrations will look different depending on what the ending is. Celebration doesn't always mean balloons and loud music, sometimes they come through an acknowledgment that you are letting something go - letting it end - to make way for a new thing and you want to embrace it. Some of my best celebrations of endings have been within my soul, an acknowledgment that it's okay for *it* to end and for something new to take its place.
Is there something in your life that has ended in the past year (or in years past)? Were you able to celebrate it or is it still stinging? Why not choose these last moments of 2012 to celebrate it and give it permission to clear the way for something new?
(It's almost a given that today's quote has to be about endings or some sort of completion because it's the last day of 2012.)
Endings and beginnings go hand in hand. They have to. You cannot have a beginning without something having ended. Only once in history can I think of a beginning occurring without an ending preceding it. Otherwise an ending comes before a beginning. The older I get the more I can appreciate endings. The better perspective I have on them. And the older I get the more peace I have about celebrating some of them! Some things must end and should end in order to make way for a new thing. And whether we admit it or not, whether we know it or not, we all want new things to happen. We really do. Celebrations will look different depending on what the ending is. Celebration doesn't always mean balloons and loud music, sometimes they come through an acknowledgment that you are letting something go - letting it end - to make way for a new thing and you want to embrace it. Some of my best celebrations of endings have been within my soul, an acknowledgment that it's okay for *it* to end and for something new to take its place.
Is there something in your life that has ended in the past year (or in years past)? Were you able to celebrate it or is it still stinging? Why not choose these last moments of 2012 to celebrate it and give it permission to clear the way for something new?
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