End of a chapter is not necessarily the beginning of another...

Life is a collection of chapters. We constantly, live through those chapters and with time and situations, chapters begin and close. Chapters are like episodes which teaches us about life, about ourselves and about those who are also involved in the same chapter. Often we find it difficult to close the chapter, because we tend to live in it, but what we don't understand that change is only what is consistent. If the chapter tends to close, it's worth to let it close.

Said that, end of a chapter doesn't necessarily begins the next one. It's wise to take some time off to realize what's life taught us in that chapter. It's difficult often to accept & live in the phase, where you have been resisting to close a chapter or you have closed it but still in phase of denial. The key is to move out of that phase and accept things the way they are, not what we always want it to be. If a chapter is inclined to close, it was meant to be so. Either we didn't deserve to continue the chapter but mostly, it's the chapter which had to close, so let it close, because only then you can open up a new chapter. In most case, we never revert back to the closed chapters, but sometimes they come back to us, we should just handle them at face value and possibly as a new chapter, without any trail back to the old chapter.

Often we think that a new chapter will replace the old one, but that never happens. A new chapter is a new beginning and we shouldn't relate it to the old chapters since the old chapter is closed and hence shouldn't be a part of the new chapter. We should let the old chapter be closed, pick up lessons from it and use it to manage the new forthcoming chapters better. That's life, and that's how we should bring about or welcome the new chapter of our life...