Thursday 22 July 2010

Ending The End




As we grow old several events in life make us think about the end. No it’s not my middle age crisis (yet). It’s just a consequence of everything that is happening around me. The world economic crisis terminates lots of companies, animal races are considered extinct, close relatives and friends die, one could really say – everything comes to an end.
Somehow I have difficulty in dealing with the concept. I never see an end in anything.
To me the finish line of the marathon it’s just the beginning of the next one, the divorce was never the end of a relationship, instead it was the very beginning of a beautiful love story, and even the recent and sad event of my father’s death was not an end for me. It was just a stage of knowledge transmission from father to soon. There are in fact concepts, principles and attitudes that we know but we simple don’t put to practice until the right moment. It’s a moment of “download” and it’s never an end. Its just life in other form, actions on another body, living memories instead of living cells.

This inexistence of end is however a complicated issue.
If you acknowledge no end, where are you going to? What’s your purpose, your objective?
On the other end it as some advantages. Frustration its not an issue. At least the one that comes of not achieving a certain end.

Pros and cons apart I believe more in the path we choose than on the destination we arrive to. Storms and winds can make you go to a different harbour, can make you change your transportation, can even make you go back a little. All these reversal fortune can not however make you assume it’s the end because there is only an end when one refuses to continue. When one quits.


Say no to the end. See a sunrise when others admire the sunset. Consider every forced stop as a starting of another stage. With different challenges, different struggles, different joy and different suffering, but never, ever THE END.

FEEL OLYMPIC!

(in memory of Tiago Alves … an endless warrior)