Today marks the end of the blogher.com thirty day blogger challenge. Yay! I did it. Today they have a suggested Daily Prompt: Tell us how you feel about endings.
Endings. Let’s see, there is an old saying, “All good things must come to an end”. Heard that one all my life and today I thought about it. It sucks! And it is a partial lie. I think it stems from a negative perspective, which I tend not to stem from. Sure, it happens. So it is partially true, or can be. But why should all good things come to an end? For example, this thirty day challenge was a good thing and it is now ending as soon as I hit the publish button. But, if you think about it, does if have to totally end? No, the things I learned from this can now go forward and evolve into better posts, etc. Parenting is a good thing – does it come to an end. No. Things will be challenging and uncomfortable and therefore a learning experience. But they do not have to end.
How about “Parting is such sweet sorrow”? This speaks of ending. The bitter/sweetness of a good thing. It is part of life – Beginnings and Endings. We can choose to be bitter about an ending or choose to embrace the ending of a good era and glean every bit of learning experience from it. This is part of life. Don’t choose to live in the past, the “Glory Days” as some call them. I think if we were to go back to those days in our lives with what we know now, we would find that perhaps they weren’t as glorious as we thought back then. They were great, but what good does it do to always go back there and dwell on the past or even to dwell on what could have been. There is no time travel.
It was best said by Uncle Rico in Napoleon Dynamite, when he was always thinking back on his glory days…….
I think you get the point. Thank you for joining me in this adventure and please continue to join me. You all are great encouragers.
Enjoy!
wingedprisms (cate b)
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I missed November 29 😦 I was out and relied on my mobile internet. I was thinking I would just post from my phone unfortunately it wouldnt upload 😦
Congratulations to you!
My biggest wordpress fear is to post from my phone – LOL
And I almost didn’t post yesterday – so worn out from our holiday here. But you are great – you were on a mission!
Congratulations, Cate! You are so awesome. I’ve been a little behind on reading and commenting, but I’ve saved everything, so you can expect a few little messages here and there from me in the next few days. 🙂 I like the quote, I’d have to get the source from my daughter, Every new beginning comes from another beginning’s end. I probably don’t have that quite right, but you get the idea. I’m looking forward to seeing what you begin next. 🙂
Thanks Deborah! You encourage me. 🙂 and I like that quote. Let me know the source when you get it.
Per my daughter, here is the info 🙂
“Every new beginning comes from some other beginning’s end”
Awesome – thank you. 😀
You’re welcome! 🙂
Congratulations on the 30 days Cate! It’s awesome!
Thank you. 😀