ALL THINGS HAVE THEIR BEGINNING AND THEIR END.

This may look as a long title for the paper I am about to write, but the end of it is: …IN ACCORDANCE WITH IT.
I found this quotation in "The Meditations" of Marcus Aurelius.

Let's look at our life. Our day start at the wee hours we call dawn and ends at sunset we call dusk. It has a beginning and an end.
Whatever project you have in mind to submit, you are eager to start it and interestingly enough more eager to finish it. In other words we know beforehand that anything we undertake must have an end to it.

 

And often, we are disturbed by the fact that we seem not to be able to finish what we started.
How about the word START.?
The word start is interesting as it gave its name to " start-up״ companies for which a certain William Lyon Phelps claimed that you basically throw out all assumptions every three weeks.
I read an interesting passage in Joseph Campbell's book "The Power of Myth" He said that Eisenhower went into a room full of computers. And he put the question to the machines, " Is there God?" And they all start up, and the lights flush, and the wheels turn. And after a while the voice says," now there is".

As for the word FINISH, is it not everyone's wish to reach, achieve, attain in other words accomplish the task at hand? Doesn't every student wish to finish his or her semester? I read that someone said that Machu Picchu was never finished . It is unfortunately the fact that the Incas never got the chance to finish it. The word finish has a sad ending to it when important people die before they finish their mission.
Here is one more word I found in Slaughterhouse Five by Kurt Vonnegut:
"I don't think this book of mine is ever going to be finished. I must have written five thousand pages by now, and thrown them away. If I ever finish it, though I give you my word of honor…" .I have to stop here as it is my own case and it hurts.

I mentioned the word BEGINNING in my title. Let's see how it works. We all know that people have to change gradually. If you eat meat one less day a week, that's the beginning. In Christendom we may date the beginning of the decline from Copernicus (1543). Charles Dickens had a famous word: " For, as I draw closer and closer to the end, I travel to the circle , nearer and nearer to the beginning. Deepak Chopra also gave that word an importance. He said in "Seven Spiritual Laws of Success ": "Every day brings a promise of a new beginning, and the opportunity to transform every life challenge into a gift. One hour, one idea, one act of love can make all the difference,

What about END?
The sad aspect of this word is when we associate it to the end of life. At which time it doesn't sound agreable. And indeed the end of days is not a happy moment. However , Science Fiction writer Frank Herbert told us : « There is no real ending. It's just the place where you stop the story".
Amazing how these three letters are found in so many words: friend, descend, endure, send, bend, contend, slender, extend, legend and so many more.

The fact is, we all had a beginning but we have no idea what our end will be. How many among us think about their end? And if so is it right? If I live today, why should I worry about what my end may be? Yet, everyone loves to have a happy end, thus, he and she does more than their best to achieve a happy ending. Here

We read a book and as we move along, we wonder how it will end, the same when watching a movie. Sometimes we try to guess the ending hoping it doesn't disappoint us. How does a negotiation end? Will it be devastating or satisfactory? Most mysteries have no known end so why are we in such a hurry to find out their end?

In the title I said ALL THINGS, is it right? We must agree that things are not only objects, they are also thoughts and ideas. We pursue the things we want and we put things of until later. Sometimes everything is possible.
I remember a passage reading BIBI, My Life Story by Benjamin Netanyahu who said:" Things are never as good and never as bad as they seem ". If it is so, then good as well as bad things have a beginning and an end. So we shouldn't worry so much when bad things happen to us as they too will have their end. Don't we want our children to have all the things we couldn't afford even if we know they have an end.
When Aristotle asked himself the question:" What is time?" , he came to the conclusion that time is the measurement of change, things change continually. Will Aristotle agree with me that things have an end?

I found in Red Sky at Noon by Simon Sebag Montefiore an interesting line that combines thing and end. He says:" Never throw anything away, everything has its moment, everything's useful in the end.

I wonder after reading these few paragraphs if the reader gets the point . If I succeeded convincing the reader to stop worrying and let life be what it is, while I know that we all want to change it. In no way will we change
LA NATURA HUMANA