Choose To See the Beginnings and Endings of Life in a Positive Way

Learning a lesson from TV series finales.

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I frequently binge watch TV shows. Especially on my darkest days, I get lost in a fictional world and try to pretend mine doesn’t exist.

When I’m feeling especially terrible, when my bipolar depression turns the sky gray or my Familial Mediterranean Fever attacks TK, I may watch hours of episodes back to back.

I have my favorite shows I turn to, such as Gilmore Girls and everything in the Stargate and Star Trek universes. Then there are the shows I pick for specific moods. Friends if I need to laugh, A Million Little Things if it’s time to cry. The latter features one of the most emotional finales ever made.

I may blow through most of a series in a matter of days, but then stop abruptly when I near the end. Watching the last episodes of a series can be painful, like saying goodbye to old friends. I’ll often try to avoid the goodbye as long as I can.

Even finales I loved, such as the conclusion to Star Trek Voyager, are hard to get to when I’m not ready for my time with the characters to conclude. But endings are necessary and can even be a good thing.

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“We cannot go back to make a brand new start, but we can start from now and work towards a brand new ending.”

- Carl Bard

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