The End

You know what I’m really bad at? Endings. With all the blogs I’ve written, when I finally reach the end, I’m not sure how to wrap it all up. Do I do the classic essay where I just repeat the lesson from the blog itself? Do I give some sort of inspirational message? I’m never sure exactly what would be the best wrap-up.

Each time I write, as much as it might not seem so, I think about how I’m going to write. Typically, I take my first paragraph and write general thoughts, and then each proceeding paragraph expands on those original thoughts. Doing this, I feel like, builds a cohesive blog that is easier to follow. Maybe I’m wrong, but that’s my intent. That’s just where the ending becomes challenging. If I do a nice little wrap-up, typically, it would just be a repeat of the first paragraph.

I remember taking writing lessons and really enjoying the moment I could create a good essay. The end of an essay, though, is easy. Your audience is your teacher. This final paragraph is your moment to shine. You get to put it all on the facts in the most simplistic terms to brag about your findings to your teacher. That’s what it is, though, bragging about learning. Your teacher essentially asks if they agree or disagree with what you’ve actually learned. Here, that always feels a little weird. Mostly because I’m not necessarily sharing a lesson as much as letting words just spill out.

That’s also what makes giving some sort of inspirational quotes hard. I’m not trying to teach some profound lessons with my blogs. I don’t intend on giving advice to people. My blogs are for myself. Having them available for others to see allows some sort of lock in my brain to break and keeps me writing. Who am I to try and inspire people onward? I even have a specific blog in the works expanding on this idea that I’m no scholar.

So here we are again. At the end. Maybe it’s the fact that I feel like I could keep writing. I think if I had enough time, I could break it all down a lot more. At the same time, I feel like there’s not much more to explain. I mean, this whole blog is about how I don’t know how to end a blog. Did I ever really need to write more than that sentence?