Why are endings necessary?

Reflection: endings provide the opportunity to pause and look back over what was . We can uncover something new about ourselves, assess whether we need to make changes, and/or reflect on what we learned from that experience. Re-framing: an ending is an opportunity to change and start something new.

Why are good endings important?

Endings can offer hope and a time for reflection . As endings have different meanings for many, for some it marks an opportunity to make a change and start on a new venture, while for others it can be seen as destabilising and uncertain.

Why is it important to have an end?

Ending things is just as important as starting them, if not more so. When something ends it allows us to reflect on what we've accomplished and what we've learned . It's a chance to celebrate our successes, acknowledge our failures, and take stock of how far we've come.

What is the purpose of the ending?

Its function can be to resolve an otherwise irresolvable plot situation, to surprise the audience, to bring the tale to a happy ending, or act as a comedic device .”

Why are ends important?

Because without a good ending, and a good hand off, you can't have a good beginning . So if you want to get good at leading change, get good at ending things well. We have a strong “loss aversion” bias, meaning we value what we currently have much more than what we might have in the future.

Why are endings important in writing?

A satisfactory ending makes people want to read the story again, makes them mull on what they've read and connect the various threads . This is what it takes for an author to become an “auto buy”.

Why are strong endings important?

It is very important to end most sentences with strength– to not let them taper off and fade out . Otherwise, the drama of the sentence will be lost to the listener. Everything in language builds. The only exceptions are endings on a redundant word, passive voice, or a colloquial expression.

Endings can be contradictory: they signal the ending of one thing but can mark the beginning of another . They fill us with dread or excitement, or both. Sometimes, we feel relief and it's easy to let go of an era, a place or a job.

What is the main purpose of an end?

Ends help us to decide what to do in the present; they are useful guides in our activity. We can imagine that the purpose of an end is to help us practice the means that lead to it .

What is the importance of end to end?

End-to-end encryption prevents malicious actors, governments, and even service providers from monitoring or accessing communications . It might seem obvious at first glance, but if a solution can't access its users' data, it can't transmit anything to anyone.

What is the point of an ending?

Endings can be reparative, hopeful, healing even. Our past is unalterable, our history and relationships may have been destructive and painful might always carry some anguish for us.

Why is the ending of a story so important?

This is because we never really know what a story is about until we reach the ending. Regardless what has come before, the ending provides the final commentary . The ending is what indicates whether the author finds this story's series of events to be tragic, comedic, triumphant, ironic, or even unclear.

Why are endings important in therapy?

Ending therapy can be challenging for both you and your therapist – you might experience intense feelings of loss, separation or abandonment. But ending can also be empowering and an important marker of change and what you've achieved . You're likely to have become more emotionally strong.

The Importance of Endings - O'Connor Mortuary (2024)

We need things to end.

Let’s look at how seeing endings as helpful events might contribute to our lives:

Reflection: endings provide the opportunity to pause and look back over what was. We can uncover something new about ourselves, assess whether we need to make changes, and/or reflect on what we learned from that experience.
Re-framing: an ending is an opportunity to change and start something new. Or to use the buzzword of 2020 – PIVOT! So many of us have events in our past that ended and guided us into a change that we are now grateful for. Endings give us a chance to reimagine, edit, risk, and keep finding out who we can be with a new start.
Acceptance: this word is one of the hardest concepts to really attain. But I believe that by practicing an awareness of endings, we can help our minds and hearts be more accepting of the incessant reality of change. In turn, this gives us the opportunity to attain greater peace by holding life with looser hands.
Balance: Nature gives us all kinds of measurements in days, seasons, moon phases, the coastline, the life and death of every thing. From the day we are born we know that the day ends and a new one comes. These are the natural rhythms of our lives.

Practicing awareness of endings:

At the end of the day, spend a few moments reflecting on what you did. Think about the endings you experienced; was there one that was particularly difficult? One that was very much hoped for?
Consider how many endings we experience every day. It can be helpful to see how comfortable and familiar we are with beginning again.
Perhaps the most important practice I’ve found to help deal with endings, is to remain present to what is happening right now. I have a tendency to look back and mourn things that are over, and I often even look ahead and can begin to feel sad about an approaching ending. When I am present in my moment, my regret and dread are greatly diminished. The gift of presence is that whatever time is given to you – you are fully and intentionally using it in that moment. That leaves no room for regret later and no possibility of dreading the future.

I dearly miss the life I had prior to COVID. I believe it was that ending which has so challenged me to live better now. I prioritize people better today than I did last year. I look at my kids more and play with them in a silly way I didn’t do before. And the value of seeing a face – something I’d never considered all that special is now very precious indeed. The ending of our world as we knew it awakened in me “wrestling matches” to not waste this time but to make it worth going through.

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To the griever:

I know many of you may be grieving and thinking about the end of grief. You probably know by now that there isn’t one. Grief doesn’t end because your love and connection to your loved one doesn’t end either. The physical ending of a relationship is an incredible pain. It’s not something where I can say, “it will end,” or “time will heal”. What your grief will do is change. It will change because you will change with and because of it. A new series of endings and beginnings have already started for you.

Your grief won’t end. But it also won’t hurt like this forever.

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Even though the end of 2020 wasn’t the re-start we all want, it gave us a mental and emotional close to a difficult time. I really needed that. And while my hopes for 2021 aren’t off the charts, I feel launched into a much more hopeful and optimistic place emotionally and mentally.

I hope you do, too.

The Importance of Endings - O'Connor Mortuary (2024)

Let’s look at how seeing endings as helpful events might contribute to our lives:

Practicing awareness of endings:

To the griever:

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