The principle of impermanence can allow a person to relax more into the present circumstances, knowing that things are in continuous flux. It's not necessary to try to grasp a "handle" on every situation, the way that Archimedes might have imagined a lever over the earth. Rather, there is an attitude that no single technique is applicable to every situation.
Knowing there are no ultimate ends, one can rejoice in broken finishes or unexpected results. This is because we aren't falling into the trap of something being "forever enduring". The stories we read in school are mostly related to a state of imbalance (the setting and climax), followed by a presumably steady state (the "happy/unhappy" ending). In reality, there is no such state, and even "retirement" is simply a prelude to something else. There are neither happy nor unhappy endings, since there are overall no real endings at all.
If you look closely at the worse case scenario (whatever that happens to be in your mind), you will find that there is an illusory finish. How many movies have we seen where the hero or villain is cast into a deep well or an underground or inferno at the very end? The inferno seems to symbolize a literal boiling off of the person's identity. Such kind of destruction may feel attractive, in much the same way as getting rid of the clutter of one's mind is refreshing. But is there such a thing? Can a consciousness or mind be boiled to a cinder, or a point of no return? The "grand finale" is the fantasy that everything will resolve in one big flourish. But is that flourish really an ending? This illusory act of ends needs to be contemplated.
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