Writing

About Endings

I find that writing isn't usually about death when writing something longer, it is about life, and about living and how we solve problems and find ways to go on mostly.

For example, in my own life I could say "My childhood ended" when I was 2 and again when I was 10 and though that would be true I didn't physically die but both situations changed me a lot and made me far more serious and much less silly than other children because I had almost died at 2 and again between 10 and 15 as well. So, though I didn't die this changed me a lot in my life.

So, when you are writing I find endings are one of the hardest things to write about because unless you die you don't end, you just find a way to go on or you die and that's life and you see this every day.

Even as a person 70 years old I look at younger people and the biggest difference between younger people and myself is only really the number of people they loved that have already died.

Younger people usually haven't lost 50 to 100 people that they loved dearly and cared deeply about like I have unless they were in a war or something.

So, for example, when someone 20 loses a lover, friend, parent or other loved one sometimes they just don't make it through that at all. This is true of people zero to 30 who believe (rightfully or wrongfully) that everyone they love will stay in their lives).

So, until someone gets to 40 or 50 and has lost 25 to 50 people that they love, they don't really believe "literally everyone older than you you might lose before you go too".

Because this is just the way life is.

So, I find writing endings to anything I write sort of ridiculous most of the time because life in reality either goes on forever or you are gone one day. That's just how it really is. And often you have no warning of it going on forever or you being gone.

Because that's just often how life really is.

So, writing endings I find sort of ridiculous because life doesn't end. Life always goes on with us or without us.