Ending. It’s the most awaited part of just anything in life except perhaps of life. I have heard people say that they are waiting eagerly for a new beginning. In my opinion, it’s just the optimistic way of telling I am eagerly waiting for an ending which will allow me to make a new beginning. May be I am a pessimist, but I have a view point here. About ending.
Every romantic story has a happy ending “And they lived happily ever after.” All thrillers, adventurous stories and even for that sake the science fictions conclude with all situations set right, the criminal punished, the victim avenged and the world saved. I cannot fathom whether it is a human mindset or is it scientifically proven somewhere that situations with happy ending are appropriate conclusions, only when All Is Well can the curtains drop.
It is not just fiction that I am talking about. In real life too, at a funeral everyone praises the departed even if during their lifetime, they were detested. Somehow at the end of a man’s life, when he can no more hear the words, his friends, relatives, colleagues and acquaintances, all seem to accept the man as he was, as if before allowing the soul to leave them forever, they wish to make peace with it. A happy ending for the man’s life even if it is a tough beginning for the loved ones left behind.
And until and unless everything is sorted out in a tight fix, the fix seems to hold on. Without the clichéd happy ending, there is always scope for the story to continue. The next generation to pick up the threads, new maladies with the same monster, a fight turning to war.
So I have reached a conclusion that if a good riddance is what we are looking for, then we should end it happily, wholeheartedly. It is the best means to protect you from meeting it again in a corner unguardedly. Ironic isn’t it? You want to get away from a work, a person, a house and you have to go away declaring peace and happiness.
But if this is the way it’s going to work, then I am game for it. And so I say Good Bye. Good Bye to anger, Good Bye to frustration, Good Bye to weepy nights, Good Bye to dreams unfulfilled, Good bye to passions not fueled, Good bye to heartbreaks and Good bye to headaches. I had a good time with all of you. You helped me accomplish many a tasks, gave me the strength to get going when I wanted nothing more than to stop, and gave me company when no one else was around. Even if you were great friends, I have to say Good Bye, for either I don’t love you, or you don’t love me, and no relationship can continue without love. Let us depart as friends today and when we meet again let us meet as passing acquaintances with a smile on the lips and nothing more.
With this, let the curtains drop for all of you just witnessed a happy ending, “And they lived happily ever after without each other.”
