This is where most fairy tales end. The prince and princess marry and ride off into the sunset to begin their new life together as husband and wife, a life full of promise, romance, and above all, love.
For all of us who watch enough bollywood movies, or television for that matter will know how after a morbid start, an adrenaline-pumped showdown, a happy ending really completes the tale of heroics.
As the cursor invitingly blinks, I try to concote one such brilliant tale of courage and dead-on decisions. Funnily enough, I can picture innumerable flashes such as the knight slaying a dragon, the prisoner-of-war rebelling against the victor, the prince wooing his would-be soulmate. On the other hand, I don't ever recall seeing one in sooth.
Why is a daughter, who's been living with just childhood memories of her mother, when actually gets to meet her, is labelled as a false claim just because her mother is rich and famous? Why is she offered money to not go public? This had a morbid start, had an epic struggle going on for years, had all her fingers crossed when she but as much as hinted at the truth.
Why is a boy, who's been sitting, waiting and wishing, constantly re-thinking his every word before he as much as speaks to the girl he's in love with, not taken taken seriously? Must he always be waiting on her? This had an awkward start, took quite some time before one had the courage to put one's feelings on the line here.
Why is a photographer, who's been honest and hard-working all his life, who's phenomenal, be denied a job on grounds of unreliability, just because he has had a durg problem? Must he waste his gift, all over again? This had a humble beginning, takes an eternity to get "clean", and he definitely wants to be a lawful citizen now.
Is fantasy the only means to get a truly happy ending? Agreed, things don't always turn out as expected, but I am tired of living in this uncertainty.
I want my happy ending, what about you?
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good point you made there. happiness, i think, is rather transient. what AFTER the happy ending? boredom? another filmi story would begin, and that would need a happy ending too. i don't think it ever ends.
right now, my happy ending would be to eat a chicken sandwich, but having said that, i'm still a sucker for happy endings.
incidentally, what HAVE you been watching?
I remember seeing this movie about the daughter u mentioned. its called "Then She Found Me". Its peppered with this crazy self deprecating sense of humour which makes the non-happy ending happyish after all.
I think that is the way things oughta turn out. Happyishly.
Having said that, I do hope I end up with one hot Serbian tennis player. But that is the fallibility of the human race. We feed on hope. And the absence of it!
*doubletake,doublethink:
there's actually a website dedicated to "and they lived happily ever after" and what must you do, in order to make sure your marriage stays that way!
i did not get your question, though.
*speedpost:
well that's a tough one, let's hope you do end up with a tennis player.
btw, i got that daughter story from
a case file, about an author who writes an autobiography mentioning how her children died in a car crash when it was actually she who had left home. then a few years later she meets her daughter, and on the advice of her publisher calls her an impostor, thinking it is an attempt to get a part of her fame and proseperity.
She goes on to the extent of offering her daughter money,
who obviously refuses it.
the nerve of these people...
interesting.
however, in this world, there Are no endings. So i don't think there's a question of lived happily ever after. Cause after iving happily ever after, i wonder what would happen. Ultimately you'd end up dying. I'm unsure to term that happy or not.
i want the chicken sandwich too
and chicken chow
and a zinger burger
okay, i can't fathom why i wrote this comment at all, i've forgotten what i was thinking. but i'm going to check out that website, should be entertaining.
I dont want just my happy ending, I want the entire movie. I want the gun fights, I want the songs where I can dance like a stud, I want a theatre full of die hard fans to cheer and scream, I want that stupidly sexy heroine, I want it all.
Go watch "Next".. that just about covers it. :P
dude the last line kinda screwed things up for you .
btw how come you've disappeared again?
where you are?
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