All good things must come to an end...

...and it's always too soon

We all know it happens. It's happened to most of us at some time or another, when something really good has been going on and then it just ends, way before you would have liked it to. It could have been that first speeding ticket that ruined your reckless driving bliss, it could have been that special someone deciding that things couldn't work, or it could be the end of the long summer, meaning back to the grind of school and snow.

Whatever it is that's ending, you wish that it could last even a few more moments, impractical, pointless or frivolous as it may realistically be. But, of course, you defy logic and reason and hope that this time will stretch just a little further.

Oh well, I guess there's really nothing we can do. These times are ending because we can't control them, and soon enough we come to our senses and realise that the best course of action is the one that is already happening. Maybe this is because we stop doing what we feel and start doing what is best, or maybe we just give in to the hopeless truth that fate is no longer within our control. Either way, we justify to ourselves that "I'm doing the right thing" and that "this is what I want to and should be doing". Whatever lets us fall asleep at night.

And soon, we no longer fret about this ending, and archive the memories into our pasts, never again to think about the torment that we were caused, remembering only the good times the preceded it.

One day, someone will invent a way to store these feelings and memories so that they will never have to end. Until then, we're stuck with the past.

Don't ever let anything good go that you don't have to.

Pete

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