They never stop. I call the manifestation of this fate slender threads. We all have free will, of course, so we can oppose the slender threads. Perhaps this is necessary to keep us incarnated, but I think we can learn to work with the slender threads instead of trying to force life to go a certain way. As modern people, we love our freedom.
Freedom insists that the ego can do anything it wishes.
But we are safest when we let go of trying to control life and instead trust and listen to the slender threads. Despair, Hope, and Faith Jim Rosemergy Hope is always present because it is the beginning of the journey of transformation. It may seem to live and then to die or not to live at all, but it is eternally present. Over the course of our lives, most of us will witness the life, death, and resurrection of hope many times. It comes into being quickly, but it can just as quickly be replaced by despair.