𝐍𝐨𝐭 𝐄𝐯𝐞𝐫𝐲 𝐒𝐭𝐨𝐫𝐲 𝐆𝐞𝐭𝐬 𝐚𝐧 𝐄𝐧𝐝𝐢𝐧𝐠—𝐀𝐧𝐝 𝐓𝐡𝐚𝐭’𝐬 𝐎𝐤𝐚𝐲

We love closure. We crave it. We’re wired to seek resolution, to tie up loose ends, to make sense of the mess, to hear the villain apologise or the lost love explain why they left. But life isn’t a movie. Most of our stories don’t end with a neatly wrapped bow. Someone drifts away without explanation. A job disappears without warning. A hurt goes unacknowledged, a betrayal unanswered. And we’re left standing there, holding a question mark, waiting for an ending that never comes.

The truth? Some doors close silently. Some wounds heal without justice. Some people leave without a word, and some mistakes are never owned. And yet, we keep searching for that last chapter, that final conversation, that satisfying click of a locked door behind us. Why? Because ambiguity is uncomfortable. Our minds itch for completion. We’d rather have a painful truth than an endless "what if?"

Closure isn’t something the world owes us. It’s something we give ourselves. The unanswered text, the unresolved fight, the unfinished goodbye, they don’t have to dangle in our minds forever. We don’t need someone else’s apology to find peace. We don’t need an explanation to move on. We don’t need the last word to know our own truth.

The stories that haunt us the most aren’t the ones that ended badly; they’re the ones that never ended at all. The friend who ghosted. The boss who never gave feedback. The loved one who left without reason. We replay them, searching for clues, rewriting scenarios in our heads. But what if we stopped waiting for an ending and just… let it be unfinished? What if we accepted that some things don’t get resolved, they just get folded into who we are?

This isn’t about giving up. It’s about growing up. Life isn’t a script. People don’t follow arcs. Sometimes things just are messy, open-ended, and unexplained. And the real work isn’t in chasing closure; it’s in learning to carry the uncertainty without letting it weigh us down. We don’t have to "get over" something to live with it. We don’t have to understand everything to make peace with it.

So the next time we find ourselves begging the universe for answers, let us ask ourselves this: What if I never get them? Can I still be okay? Because the most powerful closure isn’t the one we are given, it’s the one we choose. We decide when the story ends. We decide what it means. We decide when to stop waiting and start living again.

Some stories don’t have endings that we like, but we learn to live with that.