Closing Time, Time for You to Go Out to the Places You Will Be From

To keep with the optimism I seem to have captured in this blog, I decided to use Semisonic’s 1998 hit, “Closing Time.” First, if you haven’t heard it, here ya go (listen to it…. But then come back!) :

Regardless of your interpretation of the lyrics of this song, there is one resonating quote towards the end of the song that most people my age either title a Facebook album or use as a way to express some sort of false sentimental value, but actually means a lot more than just its nine words.

“Every new beginning comes from some other beginning’s end.”

I’ve touched briefly on the subject before, but I believe the lyrics interpretation hold true. Sometimes, even when things seem to be going wrong or it seems as if everything is slipping away from your fingertips, that’s just the beginning of something else. Have you ever had that moment where you feel as if you’re down in the dumps, and then something miraculous happens? You may not realize it at the time, but you reflect later and see how that ending led to something else. Sometimes when one door closes, another opens, is a similar mentality.

While I admit, it’s hard to think this way in the moment, if we all could take a step back and think this way it might benefit us all. Thinking that with everything bad that happens a good thing might come of it might be a little bit TOO optimistic, but why not.

For example, when you break up with that guy who you thought was “the one” who made your heart melt, who made you giddy every time he smiled at you…yeah, your life will suck for a little while, and you might be completely miserable… but eventually you’re not, and you move on, and you’re ok. And it’s at that moment where you realize what about that fantastic person wasn’t so fantastic… or, what you want from the next person you embark on a relationship with. You learn who you are, what your needs are, and how some of that amazing stuff was probably created in your head because of the love that blinded you from seeing maybe the “real truth.”

But, it applies to everything in life besides love, although we all know that’s my favorite topic. When you graduate or when you move past one phase of your life, new things happen. You meet new people, learn more about yourself, and continue to constantly grow and shape and mature into the person that you were meant to be.  Some people may say it is some higher power … but I think it’s a little bit of fate.

Everyone has a destiny, and all of those ups and downs ultimately lead them to reach it… no matter how rough the going gets, or how tough it seems to me… I have faith we all end up where we are supposed to be.

Waiting, hoping, wishing,

M