This week's blog post is supposed to be about endings and beginnings, and i'm going to write about it by responding to a quote.
God wants us to know that life is a series of beginnings, not endings. Just as graduations are not terminations, but commencements. Creation is an ongoing process, and when we create a perfect world where love and compassion are shared by all, suffering will cease.
- Bernie Siegel
While the quote in whole is a very deep and inspiring one, I will be focusing on the first half of it for this post.
Bernie states that life is not just endings, they can be interpreted as beginnings too. An example he gives is graduation. Instead of leaving the life and school you've been in, you are just beginning a new one. While this is a very true and creative way to interpret life, I think that the endings should be considered just as much as the beginnings. Yes you are going to a new school, meeting new people, but at the same time you are leaving a foundation that you have been a part of for 8 years, with people that have never left your side. Now in high school with all new classes and hundreds of other people, there is a definite possibility that some of those relationships will end.
One way I like to think about beginnings and endings is considering life. When you are born, you start your official "life". But even as we grow, learn, communicate, we are also stepping closer to the end. Every second that passes by is a second closer to death. In this perspective we can consider life an ending and beginning, at the same time.
In conclusion, I think that endings and beginnings are an integral way of how we perceive and get through life, as one ending can be the beginning of something far greater, or the end of life can lead to a Heaven leagues beyond what we see now.
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