“There’s a trick to the ‘graceful exit.’ It begins with the vision to recognize when a job, a life stage, or a relationship is over — and let it go. It means leaving what’s over without denying its validity or its past importance to our lives. It involves a sense of future, a belief that every exit line is an entry, that we are moving up, rather than out.”
―Ellen Goodman
[My mom, Eva Dell, gave me this quote within a card she sent when I was leaving my first church appointment. I pinned it to the calendar in my office, meditating on it every day as I prepared to leave. Mom was always on time with her advice. And she still is. As hard as it was to let go, she did so gracefully. -Jim Marsh, Jr.]
This piece also sounds like a good way to think about the end of our lives on this earth.