Old and New Chapters

Some chapters seem to go on forever.  It isn’t until you are at the end of the chapter that you realize how long it really was.  There is irony in the fact that you don’t know you are taking the long view until you stop to take the long view.

Viva Yogi Bera.

So, I find a lesson in that realization.  Every view is a long view.  Every chapter has the potential to go on indefinitely.  As in writing, in life all chapters end with punctuation of some kind.  Period.  Exclamation.  Question mark.  It doesn’t matter.  There is always something to mark the end.  And the end of a chapter is the end of a chapter simply because that’s where the author chose to end it.  

Get it?  

YOU are the author.  Each chapter ends when you CHOOSE to let it end.  Nothing goes on indefinitely so long as you determine where the ending should go.  If you wait for someone else to end it, you’ll wind up coming to the end of the book, if you catch my meaning.  We author with the assistance of the Editor, but, in the end, the book belongs to us.

So, this chapter ends because I choose for it to end.  The next chapter has already begun.

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