In fact, I am not sure there are any beginnings and endings at all. But rather what we perceive as beginnings and endings are simply stages on the Journey of life. Another way of looking at this, perhaps the beginning of a transition is the decision to take the left hand fork of the road, and the end, here we choose the right hand fork. We do indeed choose to start our transition, but at the same time, we have always been in transition. The same can be said at endings.
Transformation never ends.
Only the very nature of transition itself changes, and transforms. . . Yet as we pass through each stage, we have an internal need to mark that change as having been completed. Recently I went through such a point in my personal Journey. That was the decision for, and completion of, the surgery I needed at this time. And with this surgery, I had become.