Everyone has a story to tell and share, about their various life experiences. The good, the bad, and the ugly.
Some will look at endings as sad, the “what might have been,” filled with regrets. Endings can tear you down. Endings can scare you so much that you don’t let things end and you hold on just a little too long. Be it a dead-end job or an unhappy marriage. I always believe that EVERYTHING HAPPENS FOR A REASON. There are no ‘accidents’ in life. Our very existence and destiny are pre-ordained before the dawn of time.
Regardless of when things end or why they end, it is important to look back and know that things end for a reason, and to appreciate them for what they are while they lasted.
This can be so incredibly hard to do when things end badly or inevitably. It could be a terrible job or a horrible relationship. Either may have sucked so much out of you that you lost who you were in the process of being in it. A job could have tested your decision-making or your work ethic. A relationship could have been manipulative and draining and on and off again for years that drives you crazy. 
In the end, I think we can all agree that it is extremely important that those negative things in your life should end, will end or have ended (please consider every possibility and do whatever is necessary to make yourself happy). Some people opt to stay in the job which they know is getting them nowhere. Others are prepared to continue to stay in a tortured and loveless marriage. Both reasons are because most people are afraid of the unknown – The big dark abyss, right out there, the unknown. They would rather stay within the confines of what they know and are familiar with, rather than pivot, walk away, and change the narrative.
With the ending of this, however, you can look back and appreciate the good memories and what it has taught you. Many people choose to stay in an unhappy work environment, in a job in which they do not feel fulfilled. Likewise in a marriage, most women (and some men) feel that it is so much easier to ‘coast along’ sacrificing their happiness for convenience and continuing their existence from one day to the next, always hoping for the best but nothing changes.
There is a whole lot of difference if one gets terminated from an unhappy work environment or if your cheating spouse has asked you for a divorce. That decision has been taken right out of your hands. You have to move on whether you like it or not. However, if you are the one who has decided to resign from your job or be the one to serve your spouse the divorce papers, it is your decision. You are taking steps to be happy and be made whole by your decision to walk away. At most times, into the unknown. By having something end, you have the time to reflect, you have the time to appreciate it and if you absolutely hated it, you can take away things from the experience that you know you will never stand for or put yourself through again.
I love this quote
“You cannot go back and change the beginning, but you can start where you are and change the ending.” – C S Lewis
Whether it be a good or bad thing that you went through, everything has to come to an end, and it is up to you to find the positive in it. They are important so you can grow, so you can appreciate things you have gone through and so you can learn about yourself. Just always try to take away good things in every ending and try not to let the negativity ruin future experiences.
Remember, you always have control over how you choose to respond to things around you. When you respond with an attitude of curiosity, optimism, and confidence, you will find it so much easier to survive and thrive during new beginnings. We may not be aware of what our ‘new beginnings’ will look like but we can celebrate them along with the endings that made new beginnings possible.