An Internet search produced the following from answers.yahoo.com:
There is an end to everything, to good things as well. The proverb dates back to about 1374 (Chaucer). First attested in the United States around 1680. The word 'good' was added much later. 'Everything has an end' and 'Everything comes to an end' are variants of the proverb.*
OK, so, I'm still confused. What exactly does that mean? I can understand that everything natural has an end but what about the spiritual? Especially, what about God? Does God end? I don't believe so. So then, the flesh will end because our bodies will die. And things of this world will end because they will rust and decay, eventually. I heard the life expectancy of a plastic six-pack holder will not decay for a million years. But, still, that does have an end, too.
Does our diet have to end as well?
Well, in a way it does end. We finish one and start another each day. When you go to bed you start a fast for eight hours or so and then you begin to eat again. That is a type of end. You may even go off your diet for a while. You may stop one diet plan and start another. That has an end.
I will have to say that I have done that several time in my life. Even several times this past few years. I am at presently in between the diet I normally eat on and a non-diet I am using now. I'm not eating junk food but just whatever happens to land on the plate at breakfast, lunch and dinner. I even participated in a chili dog the other night for supper. I know, it's hard to believe but that's what was there for dinner. It was a beef frank but the chili came from a can. Whew! It was hard to convince myself I could do that!
I came upon a friend of mine who has been a health advocate and found him to be indulging in a tiramisu desert and a large muffin for lunch. He was suffering from a total lack of self-control for a while. I'm not sure if he is back on tract but it was shocking to see him consume the total contents of both those items without wondering if his diet had come to an end.
What may seem good to us doesn't always define itself as such to our bodies. Even our minds become confused when we tell it to eat the things that don't seem natural to it. Like candy bars, soda and potato chips. They seem natural, don't they? OK, maybe not. But there are some things that we tend to eat that do not seem natural like rice based spaghetti noodles or quinoa based macaroni. Especially after you have warmed them up.
None-the-less, we sometimes need a break so our bodies can assemble nutrients and goodness more efficiently.I say that as not to give license to pig out on junk food but, to vary your diet from time to time and let those things that seem good come to an end. Then you can begin again.
Isn't that a song or a dance?
As a footnote to all of you Star Trek fans. All Good Things . . . can be found here.
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* Source(s):
"Random House Dictionary of Popular Proverbs and Sayings by Gregory Y. Titelman (Random House, New York, 1996).
