Status Updates From The End: Revised and Expanded

In real life, of course, stories don't ever really end. We attach endings in the telling because we have lives to live and boundaries are a comfort and a convenience to our meaning-making minds. [...] Whatever you put in focus, something else is left blurred or out of frame. What is your point of view? What is eclipsed by what? How far back do you travel to make a start, and how far forward to make an end?