"I have a dream," he said slowly. "I persist in dreaming it, although it has often seemed to me that it could never come true. I dream of a home with a hearth-fire in it, a cat and a dog, the footsteps of friends - and you!"
Two people, meant from day one for each other, find happiness at long last.
Or . . .
A child is reunited with her lost kitten. The down-and-out sports star makes one last glorious return to "go out on top". The hero recovers from the lethal sickness, and all is well. The knight slays the fierce dragon, rescues the princess, and they live happily ever after.
Don't you love the way things work out in fiction, despite all manner of obstacles? The way good will always triumph over evil, as predictable as the sun rising? The blessed assurance that things will always end on a note of sincere encouragement? The inspirational message that if this person could overcome these problems, you can too? The way a character's love life can be so haphazard, yet still end exactly as we think it should?
Don't you love happy endings?
Don't you love the way things are so simplified in fiction, despite life being proof to the contrary? How being inept (or in some cases, completely clueless) can still equte to catching the crook? Don't you love how an inspirational story can make you feel like more of a failure for even thinking of quitting? Or how a beautiful happily ever after can make you feel utterly alone and miserable?
Don't you hate happy endings?
Death By Logic!
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*hugs*
Hollywood's a bitch. Pardon my language.
I think that the stories are supposed to make you think that things can always be better. That is CAN happen to you. I don't think they are supposed to bring you down darlin'. You shouldn't think like that.
Feelin a little spiteful today are we?
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