THE START.

There are those things that end things and things that begin things. There’s that picture which makes you start liking someone, an affectionate gesture which makes you start being comfortable with someone. There is also that grueling task which makes you start wanting to end or wanting to quit on something, or an unthought-of action which makes you stop feeling something you’ve held on for a long time.

When things end, we may then wish that the things which somehow helped in making it end did not come to existence at all; that hurtful statement, that emotion- less response, those things you discovered after being kept hidden from you. When things start then end abruptly, we would wish that those things which brought it to start should have been ignored; like that thoughtful message, the unforgettable conversation about your favorite fantasy of all time ‘The Lord of the Rings,’ the bouquet of roses which made begin, the story of you and someone you branded your ‘better half.’

As we grow old, we’d realize that regrets turn into learnings, or they never were regrets at all, or they could be. When something ends and we wanted to prolong its stay, we’d think of things we should not have made or things we should have made. Yes, you can call that regrets. Yet later on as we accept that it ought to end, those things transform into learnings which we can use on new beginnings.

Everyday, we lose and gain something. Everyday, things begin and end, stuff like an MRT- ride, a stressful Monday shift, a conflict with someone. We should all get used to this cycle by now; yet it is our nature to over- think about ends and beginnings- why this happened and why this did not, to still cry about something even if that something is the same thing which made you cry from time to time. It’s our nature to be smart enough to know that things will come to an end at one point, that a pain will all come to pass one day, yet it’s also our nature to be emotional about them. People really are people, we’ve got our minds that make us know what we know, and our hearts that make us feel things toward things we know.

THE END.

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