I started a project several years ago, and now it seems that it's time for closure. Why now? The project involved a lot of research related to questions I was curious about. I discovered lots of good information that mostly satisfied my quest. Now it's time to put that information in good order to pass on to the next researcher. Someday I'm sure someone will pick up where I left off.
Why not continue the quest? The research arrived at a point where the answers all resulted in a somewhat similar pattern--there wasn't a lot of new information, but instead the same old, same old facts. What I found provided a mostly clear picture of the story. Plus the research took a lot of time; time I want to use now for other pursuits.
Throughout life we'll hitch ourselves to questions and quests that intrigue us, motivate us, and move us in specific directions, and then those questions and quests will meet their ends. I remember observing this with my parents and colleagues over time as they moved on from passions and quests they were heavily invested in. I wondered why they no longer were interested in those pursuits, and now I realize that we often come to natural points of departure from questions and quests. We reach a point of satisfaction and/or a point when some other calling is greater. When this happens, it is good to put closure on the pursuit in a way that respects the work you've done and in a way that provides a starting point for the individuals who will carry on the quest in the future. Onward.