"…and in my opinion, there is always equal amount of relief as there is pain in that process of ending one.”
This opinion made me think because it's not only those who have tried to build a company and then had to let it go who can relate, but anyone who has tried to pour all their existing energy, time, and emotion into something, only for it to come to an end. So, surely, most people.
This perspective led me to ponder what else is equally balanced in such a situation. My answer to this question is that almost everything. I have a long list in my head of what was good and what was bad over the past three years. This list, at least in feeling, is completely balanced. Somewhere, this is entirely logical because people generally turn away from something when this balance is significantly disrupted. Of course, the picture can be shaded by how much we've already put into something, but usually, it doesn't reach complete irrationality.
So, this decision, and the change, now feels like a logical thing to me, in which relief and pain are truly found in equal measure, and over the past years, joy and sorrow, good and bad, ups and downs.
But after all, isn't that what life is about?