When your days are numbered...

My fellow readers,

today’s discourse is on finishing and therefore an enhancement to what has already been said, but this time in a different manner (based on me running out of time prior my year of studying abroad at the University of Wisconsin). This time subject is not a mere enrcouragement to finish strong, but what to do with a shortage of time left, the clock ticking, tick...tock...tick...tock; your days are numbered, and a good thing will come to an end; this is what to do, when your days are numbered...

I know you all can relate to the situation in which you are working on something big, a tough challenge, a goal you set, maybe even further a dream you are to make come true. You got used to working hard, work has eventually evolved into fun, and you do it with passion. You are at course to achieving, you are at course to finishing...but what fulfills you is a subliminal fear of what is there to come after. What will happen once you finished? What will await you in the end, or after the end?

What we often experience is a (w)hole lot of emptiness, for we perceive there is nothing in the end, and further nothing after the end. No wonder, when you fulfill something with such an intense passion and dedication, with determination, with pure love for it; but what is there left for us in the midst, or in the center of destined desolation? There lies a lot for us in the end, all we have to do is identify it and draw something out of it. The end of something depicts not only the end of a period but further marks the beginning of something new, remember: the world keeps spinning, and so is your life. Just because we perceive the end of something does not mean there is nothing left for us, even though we may feel like that; there is more out there for you—as well as there is for me. Let us not see the end as the mere end and eventually fall back to reminiscence, to our nostalgic notion in which we cling to the achievements of the past. Draw a perseverant spirit out of it, be aware of a great goal you have achieved, inhale the feeling of success and let that be the encouraging spirit to move on. Help yourself and move on.

The author Dave Pelzer once said that “[t]o help yourself, you must be yourself. Be the best that you can be. When you make a mistake, learn from it, pick yourself up and move on.” That also applies to success and achievements, learn, take the experience of finishing towards the next achievement, let it be your engine, or more the gasoline to run your determined engine of self-awareness and confidence; pick yourself up and move on to the next goal. There lies your time to shine...again...and again!

Then you are at your best, one to reverberate confidence and the ability to move on, to never stop—and as I wrote at some point: to never yield. Your days are numbered? Keep your smile up at the goalline ready to finish and move on, no emptiness will await you, be the one to maintain confidence when things are coming to an end, be happy and thankful for going down that road, and filled with heart and self-esteem to move on, do what you do best: polish and shine...and move on...and be one thing: the best that you can be!