On Endings

Are there any endings that we really want to happen?  Even the best endings – the climax of a wonderful piece of music, the last page of a rivetting book – leave us in some way ‘sad’.  When we have been enjoying something good, the fact that it has ended will – no matter how much pleasure it has afforded us – inevitably bring with it at least a tinge of disappointment.  Indeed it may well be the case that the better the thing is, the more we feel a “loss” at its conclusion.

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