We
are all very familiar with the famous Alexander Graham Bell quote
“When one
door closes, another opens,”
But,
we all also seem to forget the rest of the passage,
“But we often look so long and so
regretfully upon the closed door that we do not see the one which has opened
for us.”
When
we finally begin to open our eyes, our hearts, and our minds to the realization
that one door has closed, one journey has ended, and look for the new path in
which our lives will thus move forward through, that is what we, my friends,
call reaching The Beginning of
the End.
The
beginning of the end doesn’t need to be sad, although at many times, places,
moments, the journeys end of a person’s life, or of a journeys end of a persons
relationship with another could bring us
D
O
W
N,
Many of these endings, are
only leading us to a far greater journey that life has left for us to live and
experience. The memories of journeys that have ended may hurt, the memories may
fade, or that memories might push us to further improve ourselves, but it is
all about how we react to the closing of one door, and how open we are when we
unfasten another.
The
beginning of the end is beautiful. “Take
it all in. You are blessed to be here. 100% blessed.” – The Beginning of the End
The
beginning of the end allows for us to let the past go and permit fate to put
the rest of your life’s pieces together, so that in the actual end we
experience all of life’s happiness, because that’s all we want in the end.
Happiness.
At first, I am not going to lie, the blog project was just another thing I had to try and do really well on in order to pass the class. Not even 5 minutes into the first blog post, and I felt so in tune with the assignment. Personally I feel as if though I have gone through a lot of life’s lessons, when I lost my father, then my grandfather, and then having to deal with the fact that the rest of the world is still going on around me and that life in the end, does go on, whether we like it or not. My blog experience this semester opened my eyes to a lot of what I was pushing away in order to never experience, but I felt so much better being able to explain it all, anonymously, of course. I wrote all of my blog posts on memories and journeys, because that is what I felt I could mostly identify with and felt a connection with. I was lucky enough to connect my blog with other blogs that also had to do with memories, traveling, journeys, and life as a whole. I was able to see different kinds of meanings for the word text according to the other authors and the other blogs that I had to work along with.
ReplyDelete“During long periods of history, the mode of human sense perception changes with humanity’s entire mode of existence,” (Benjamin 222). Just as our perceptions change due to our life’s experiences, so does the meaning of different words. I learned and now understand that things such as a picture or a song are also forms of text, because they express some sort of an idea to an audience, just as words and language do. “Works of art are received and valued on different planes,” (Benjamin 224), and the same can be said for works of literature, and even this semesters blog posts.