When you create a story, identify the characters by their personality, past accomplishments, problems they face, and ambitions they have for the future. At some point, you need to image what happens to these characters and how the story ends.
If you have already lived more than half of your life, you pretty much know your strengths and weaknesses and how you have faced important events in your past. Now may be the time to imagine how you want your story to end. Of course, no one knows the details of the end, but we can have some control over what happens between now and then. Consider any unfinished business: a will, a living will, funeral arrangements, apologies, statements of appreciation and love. Getting your house in order makes it so much easier on your loved ones left behind.
Once this business has been settled, the future is open to plan the last chapters. We can appreciate how we have grown and improved over the years, how we have survived, and what we have accomplished. This isn't a time to be morbid or sad but a time to celebrate and live life to the fullest. We can continue to set goals and get on with living.
A writer can control every aspect of a story from beginning to end. Some of our story has been written, but we can make plans to be ready for whatever may come even though we can't write the final page.
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