Question #15: Where did your latest completion begin?

Catching the Future

Amid the springtime budding, blooming and sprouting, comes a wave of endings. It’s graduation season.  With or without the pomp and flare, the beginning of a phase of schooling for thousands of students has found completion, and for many, it offers hope and momentum.  I share this optimism.  It is familiar.  I too am completing a phase of my continued education. 

I recall applying for the Mediation Certification program at the University of Utah a year ago.  As I read the requirements for this two-semester course, I was suddenly grateful for my bachelor’s degree in Communications, which until now hadn’t had an "official" opportunity to matter much. I wrote a letter, sent for my transcripts, paid the fee and submitted the application packet with enthusiasm, receiving the acceptance notice within a couple of months. 

I started to think about what my life would look like from a new perspective.

I imagined being in school again, and the options this certificate could offer, and sensed a distinctive energy of anticipation gather within me.  I could “feel” a different future taking shape, and suddenly I had an outline for the coming year.  This marked a beginning, and now I have caught up with its end.  I have met the once distant future and embrace its completion, and ask, “What is next?”

This ceremony of end is a license to begin, and it encourages me to continue seeking and celebrating and creating.

Each beginning has an ending, so celebrate I must.  Each present moment holds the paradox of the end and the beginning at once.  And thus it is…. we create beginnings and catch endings, and meet ourselves in the round.

Where did your latest completion begin?

 Let's skip a few rocks, and create some ripples...

~Asia