I don't, and feel empty

Do you mean that bittersweet feeling you get when something is finished?

If so, I kind of go through a process with that.

First I feel great for finishing the game or book, rarely a movie, but it fades into sadness and a feeling of not knowing what to do. I usually just fall asleep then because so I don't have to drown in my sadness of it being done and gone. When I wake up I feel a lot better, I remember all the good times I had and funny moments or awesome moments and it settles down as I find something new to begin.

Mind you this only happens to really good stories. If I don't feel a compulsion to marathon the anime or play the game for ridiculously long periods of time I usually just get a sad then bitter feeling and move on.

>>8571
This.

Have to just wait for it to pass.

When i know something (manly a series) will end i save the last for a special occasion, like a day off or something.

I actually don't finish things most of the time.
Be it the final bite of food or the final episode.
For example- cowboy bebop, outlaw star, every final fantasy
the journey is what matters. if it never ends, you always have fun!

Whenever I finish a really good video game, I end up downloading around 3-8 more afterwards. I then mess around playing all of them until one catches my attention specifically and go through the whole process again. The better the game I just finished, the harder it is to get into another.

Eventually I replay the best few. I just finished replaying Earthbound and remembering all the little things that made it so amazing for me was absolutely wonderful.

I walk it off. Literally.

Feels like I'm coming down off of a drug. Cold empty and abandoned.

If it's the end of something aesthetic (like you said: a book, a series, a game...), I sink in melancholy and solitude; but I cherish it: I try to incorporate it in a way that made me remember forever (as something that was worth of been trough).

If it's the end of something within my own life experience (a project, a friendship/acquaintance, a habit, or even an ethical discourse...), I do just like >>8620.
I HATE farewells so I avoid them: I can't ever make justice to them; so I just leave it all behind like if it was nothing.

About the idea of the end of all things (the end of my life; the end of the world): I sincerely long for it; not that much for the sake of destruction, as for my personal strive for conclusions... or something.

For me, it just ends. It's over, and I feel serious accomplishment.

If it's a reasonably short encounter, it might linger with me with varying levels of intensity for a week or two, but not more. As such, there's no lasting impact and I can't reflect on these as heavily as some others.

If it's lasted as long as months, then I tend to forget about it for a short period. After about one more month, though, I get weird flashes. It's stuff I took for granted, because it was so regular at that point in my life, and now it's gone. I seriously miss it. If it's anime, it's the characters and their individual personalities. It's like I've lost good friends.

I cope with it by largely trying not to remember it, but from time to time I like to indulge in the common ground that existed from such a time. For example, the things I was consciously into when I was enjoying these times, because I was influenced into them. Partaking in these activities brings back all the emotions, and it's like I'm friends with these lost entities once more.

Also apologies if that post was vague. I did my best.

>>8647
Addendum: I don't realize how badly I've missed things until they've returned from their leave.

That's the most concise phrase I can come up with.