{"id":151,"date":"2011-03-02T03:31:34","date_gmt":"2011-03-02T03:31:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.2soar.info\/word\/?p=151"},"modified":"2011-03-02T03:31:34","modified_gmt":"2011-03-02T03:31:34","slug":"final-finals-finally","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ordinarylegacy.com\/word\/2011\/03\/02\/final-finals-finally\/","title":{"rendered":"Final, Finals, Finally"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Final: That which is last; that which forms an end or a termination.\u00a0 <\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

I guess if you\u2019re going to begin a new life you must first terminate your old life.\u00a0 <\/span>Up until now I\u2019ve been going along on my own just thinking my wonderful new life had already begun.\u00a0 <\/span>That wasn\u2019t exactly true.\u00a0 <\/span>I\u2019ve moved, gotten new dogs, new furniture and new friends but there was no formal end to the old life. Is a formal end always necessary? Or can an old life flow into and out of the new one.\u00a0 <\/span>Can one take the best of the old life with them, like the nieces and nephews?\u00a0 <\/span>Or does everything need to be abandoned?\u00a0 <\/span>Is it abandonment or is it an understanding? \u00a0<\/span>Like knowing you won\u2019t be invited to the weddings but also knowing that you\u2019ve left your mark on young lives and might still be a favorite Aunt that they seek out for Gramma\u2019s old recipes.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

Finals: The last, usually comprehensive, examination in a course of study.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

When a divorce is final many times there is a reexamination of one\u2019s life.\u00a0 <\/span>How\u2019s it going; are you passing or failing?\u00a0 <\/span>In looking back over my marriage I wonder if I was the one who failed.\u00a0 <\/span>Not the marriage but myself.\u00a0 <\/span>Did I do the best I could for myself or did I abandon all I once believed? In order to\u2026what?\u00a0 <\/span>Can a person get stuck in something in the name of love that will never be good for them?\u00a0 <\/span>Was it ever good for them?\u00a0 <\/span>What\u2019s good for them now?<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

Finally: At last, eventually, after considerable delay.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

I can truly breathe now; I have time now, to answer all the questions that continue to surround me.\u00a0 <\/span>\u00a0<\/span>Somehow, I thought the questions would be answered, that they would be easy and few.\u00a0 <\/span>But in fact, it is the questions that have actually become the answers.\u00a0 <\/span>If you\u2019re not asking questions your entire life can you consider yourself curious?\u00a0 <\/span>Now finally I understand that it is the questions that provide the growth, the peace, the understanding.\u00a0 <\/span>The answers will only serve to move you to the next question and a better understanding, continued growth and the wonder of a curious life. Finally.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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