“If you want a happy ending, that depends, of course, on where you stop your story.” – Orson Welles
How do you feel about happy endings? Are we as human beings always searching for the feeling where everyone is happy?
Or is it a case that we really just like to complain about things? Some of us complain when that it is too cold and will then complain in the summer when it is too hot. In terms of our idols we seem to love them on the way up and then get sick of them and try to tear them down again from the pedestal we placed them on.
So what is it? Why do you search so badly for something to believe in but then when we get it, a lot of the time, it isn’t what we wanted in the first place?
To be honest I have no idea why. Maybe it’s in our nature to either want more or to seek more. Some people are happy with the answers they find and never want to move from the spot they have found, others never want to stop moving because they will not know what to do.
Life doesn’t always work out and when people want the fairytale, we tend to forget that a lot of fables and fairytales do not always end well. The thing about happy endings in our entertainment is that we want escapism, so with that in mind we want to see it all work out because maybe for us in the real world, it doesn’t always work out.
Then there are those who see the ending of the movie where everything works out and are not happy, because it becomes the same ending for a large number of movies, they then seek something different.
If everything was normal and everyone the same things would probably become boring very quickly. Happy endings may be required in the short term, given the times we are in but there is nothing to say they are needed across the board.
Wednesday, April 1st, 2009 and is filed under Thoughts & Questions.
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Mary Says:
Hi Mike
Your article is very interesting thank you. I think we are raised to believe in happy endings. We, as it were are programmed from an early age to believe that happiness is somewhere else, in someone or something or some place. We are never let in on the secret that it dwells within us…no, we have to find that out the hard way, through all the trials and tribulations of life. And then when we just cant take one more dissappointment from life then we reevaluate everything and wonder why for so long this happiness has been eluding us in spite of our greatest efforts.It is only then that it begins to make sence.
Someone once wrote that” to believe that you need what you dont have is the highest definition of insanity”.Maybe I wasnt paying proper attention in Catecism classes or maybe I just wanted to do things my way. Im not sure…I have learned the lesson though…eventually..Happiness comes from knowing that someone died for us because he loved us and his name was Jesus.That is now enough to give my life meaning and where there is meaning there is love and happiness.
God bless.
Mary
April 2nd, 2009 at 2:12 am