The earth is round and when you look into the horizon, it seems that the earth ends at the skyline, where the blue sky and white clouds mix into the greenery. Yet we know that the earth does not end at this point. When a river flows towards the sea, ocean or lake, we know that the physical river that we see trapped in the ravine of earth ends at the next boundary. However, the water continues and the river does not end - it becomes something else.

Each step in our life may seem finite, but, like the river, it melds into the next phase and becomes something else. We sit and wish for things to end so something new may begin. It seems unrealistic to wish for something to end because it really turns into something else. It would be more realistic to wish for the "new" to begin to start the next adventure. The wishing for the next anything is really signaling discontent with the present.

Happiness is only ever found in the present moment. It is not found in the future unless the future gives way to the present, and happiness is certainly not found in the past - for in the past we are always trying to remake the situation to make it the way we want it to be.

Is happiness found at the end? The end could be life, graduation, leaving a bad situation at work, in marriage, or living environment. For most people, it would seem that it depends on where it ends. Did it end where the individual thought it should, or, did it end in a surprising way? Is a person able to tell where it actually ended and something new began? Would they change it if they could? Where does it end?