Wednesday, January 9, 2013
Approaching an End…
As I muddle through life it is inevitable that I, like everyone, must face endings in various and sundry things. For example the end of a relationship either via breakup, personal drift, or even death, could be the end of a movie, or the end of a career (or job placement change). No matter whom we are or where we are in life change will happen and with change comes endings.
For me, I see an approaching ending. For the past decade and a half I have been reading a wonderful series of books by Robert Jordan and I recently purchased the fourteenth and final book in that series. Even as I start this book, I know that the end is at hand. Robert Jordan has passed away, one way or another the series will be resolved, and I will no longer be able to peeking on the lives of these characters.
Will I miss them? Yes.
I have missed characters from a book series before.
Will I morn that loss? Perhaps.
In my own way I will grieve for the loss of those relationships. In no way am intending to say that losing a loved one is as mundane as finishing a series of books, similar but of differing intensities.
Will I feel achievement at having completed a series many have abandoned half way through or having read more than 13,000 pages in the process? No.
I do not feel accomplishment like others do; instead I will look back on the ‘journey’ or ‘adventure’ I enjoyed while reading this series.
I am not the same person I was a decade and a half ago.
Whatever becomes of Rand, Mat, Perrin, Elayne, Egwene, Nynaeve, Lan, or Siuan I will miss them as if they were absent friends.
Of course most endings are followed by new beginnings, whom shall I meet next and what adventure will they lead me on?
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I have the same problem when a book series comes to an end. I loved the Outlander series by Diane Galbadon. Fortunately she is still alive and can continue even though she is not sure that she wants to. I have become very attached to these characters and always get giddy when a new book comes out. To even make it better her books are always huge and over 1200 pages much like the Wheel of Time books.
ReplyDeleteI hope that you savor the last book and absorb all of the wonderful adventures it has to offer. May you return from your journey renewed in the task of finding a new adventure to get your "fix" from :)