The Art of Wielding Pistolas

Ladies, please pause your hissing, retract your claws, and hear me out.
Relationships aren't about each person putting in his or her respective halves of 50% each. If you're really giving your "all" then you're giving 100%. So if there is a problem, it's perfectly fair to say that you are 100% a part of it....

I recently turned 24. As I prepare to lay the first quarter of my life to rest, I wanted to make a list of 25 things to do before I turn 25. (I know you see what I did there.) Here it is in its full, overly personal glory:
Throw caution to the wind. Not saying I should go all Johnny Knoxville on life, but now is an ideal time to cultivate a massive reservoir of nutty, adventuresome bedtime stories for my future grandchildren. I usually play it safe, but I will deliberately...

I was having an interesting conversation with my friend when she mentioned how she was struggling with the finality of a certain loss in her life. This got me thinking...
Barring death, divorce, legal impositions/settlements, and other more undeniably "official" examples of finality, why is it that we have such a hard time stomaching irreversible endings? Most of the time, it's not even about the specific person, place...

Let me preface this list by first saying that 2012 has been an awkward year for holidays:
New Year's Eve was a ridiculously random night spent at a clifftop resort, an evening during which I rode PV Transit for the first time with a bunch of my hooligan suburbanite friends. Between the ~24 of us, we made about 57 bad decisions....