There are many cliches about life, especially when change is about to happen. One that gets me, "This is a new chapter in your life". For one thing, it is probably the most accurate, our lives are like books, and each section is broken down, childhood, teenager, young adult, adult, old age. And it has benchmarks like graduating high school or college, getting a promotion, joining the military, retiring. The list goes on. A lot of the scenes from the previous chapter will follow, they teach what to or not to do. They give insight and are good to regurgitate or relive with friends. These "chapters" are your life, you can't help but hold on to them.
However, like any book, there is always non-essential information that doesn't need to follow into the next chapter. It's not required to move the story along, and really it just holds it back. Those are the people, places, things, and moments that we realize should not continue, like a short story inside of a novel....at some point that crap has got to end.
As the authors and editors of our books and chapters, it's up to us to decide what is necessary for the next chapter and what is not; and the parts that are not necessary can stay as part of the story, because maybe it was essential in this chapter, but they need not be a part of the next one.
When you see the end of your current chapter appearing, do some editing....your story will be better off.
