Time is sliding out from your hand like sand, my friend. It feels like just a moment before when we entered a new year, and now here we are—already at the last month.
Why Finishing the last chapter matters?
Before opening a new chapter, it's important to finish the last one. According to me, before starting a new year, it is very important to give a beautiful end to the past year.
Every year fills you with different kinds of experiences. You may have seen victories and failures, fallen in love, felt heartbreaks, made new connections, or lost someone close to you. Life is all about experiencing, learning, enjoying, and growing.
This year would also have given you so many experiences. But December—being the last month—is extremely important. I call it the “Concluding Month.”
It means that this month is for concluding your whole year and ending all the chapters of this year within this year itself. Because I think as long as the vessel contains leftovers, their taste will remain even after pouring hundreds of tasty new dishes into it.
How Do You Figure Out What to Conclude?
A question might be rising in your mind: How do I figure out what to end or conclude?
It’s very simple, my friend. To conclude doesn’t mean you have to make conclusions for every experience. You have to conclude those things from which a voice is coming from your heart—the things stuck inside your mind. So think and start searching for them.
It might be anything:
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a promise to someone,
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a planned trip with your friends that is still pending,
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a fight with someone close,
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an unfinished goal,
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or a plan you made at the start of the year.
Just figure them out.
After Realizing, Take Action
Once you figure it out, the next step is action. Thoughts are worthless without steps.
Go on that trip with your friends before the year ends. Nobody knows where life will take us in the new year. Maybe you won’t be able to meet again. There’s a beautiful theory called “The Last Meeting Theory.” I will write about it someday too.
It says we don’t know when we are meeting someone for the last time. And often, before life separates you, it brings you so close that you feel as if you’ve never seen each other this way before. The very next moment, you don’t know whether you will see each other again or not.
That’s why I’m saying—complete your plans and promises with your loved ones before the year ends.
Fix What Needs to Be Fixed
If someone is upset with you, hurt because of you, or your heart genuinely knows that you made a mistake—go and correct it.
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Apologize
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Improve your relationships
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Understand and forgive
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Don’t start the new year with old burdens
Let go of the person who is not healthy for you. Let the fake ones fly away. Let the wrong ones leave. Your mental health, your growth, and your peace are more important than the presence of those people.
Sometimes, we even have to let go of someone who meant a lot—not because they were hurtful, but because life is taking them away. People stay with us only till their role in our life ends. Some bonds become too difficult to carry on.
The Power of Gratitude
Be grateful and thankful to the people who helped in making you a better version of yourself. Go and thank them before the year ends. Thank even those who helped you in their bare minimum way.
Always be thankful for life. Gratitude keeps you humble, kind, and grounded.
Because you can’t start a new journey with past burdens.
The Beauty of December
There is another level of beauty in this month. It helps us learn, accept, let go, and grow from the experiences of the whole year. Let go of all the negativity. Take all the positivity.
Start your new chapter with:
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full energy
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new hopes
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new dreams
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a fresh mind
Forget the past. Live in the moment. Enjoy the beautiful journey of life.
Personal Note
I have felt all these things in my life too. I made these mistakes myself, which always resulted in a pressure-filled start to the new year. Honestly, I never felt anything special about “New Year” until I realized all this and started applying it in my life.
Now my new year truly feels like a New Year—full of joy, dreams, energy, and positivity. I am writing all this not because I am a philosopher, but because I have made these mistakes and felt how they feel.


