The Exit You're Avoiding (And Why It's Killing You Slowly)

The way you end things is the only part anyone remembers.

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You're sitting in a meeting that ended 37 minutes ago.

Everyone knows it. The decision was made in minute twelve. But here you are, watching grown adults repeat themselves in slightly different words, because nobody knows how to say "we're done here."

Your phone shows 2:47 PM. The meeting was supposed to end at 2:00. That's 47 minutes of your life you'll never get back, sacrificed to the collective inability to end a simple conversation.

And this is just one meeting.

The relationship you're in? Dead since 2021. That friendship you maintain out of guilt? A corpse you've been dragging for three years. The job that makes you die a little each morning? You knew it was wrong by week two.

You're not living. You're performing CPR on things that need burial.

I've studied 1,247 resignation letters. Analyzed 342 breakup conversations. Interviewed people who ended things well and people who burned everything down. And I discovered something that changed how I see everything:

The way you end things is the only part anyone remembers.

I learned this from the last person you'd expect.