Closing Cycles

"Closing cycles, shutting doors, ending chapters…whatever name we give it, what matters is to leave in the past the memories of life that have finished.

You can spend a lifetime wondering why all this happened.

But such an attitude will be awfully stressing for everyone involved - your parents, spouse, friends, children, siblings - everyone will be finishing chapters, turning new leaves, getting on with life, and they will all feel bad seeing you at a standstill.

None of us can be in the present and in the past at the same time. Not even when we try to understand the things that happened to us.

Let things go. Release them. Detach yourself from them.

Before a new chapter is begun, the old one has to be finished: tell yourself that what has passed will never come back.

Shut the door, change the record, clean the house, shake off the dust.

Stop being who you were, and change into what you are."

--Paulo Coehlo.