“And they lived happily ever after… The End.” Almost all fairytales end that way. After the hero or heroine (most of the time the latter) suffers, then comes his / her rewards… They usually come in the form of a prince for a husband (or a princess for Aladdin’s case), a kingdom to rule on and probably everything and anything he / she could wish for. But does it really end there?
Did the prince really love Sleeping Beauty considering she may be a century older than him (she’s probably older than his great grandmother! It may not show but still…)? Wouldn’t their beliefs clash (It’s been a hundred years… a lot must have changed)? How about Snow White? Would any sane girl willingly spend the rest of her life with a necrophile? He’d probably try and get her to eat another one of those blasted apples for all she knows… And Cinderella? Someone like her must have developed an obsessive compulsive nature and she just moved to a place probably ten (or more) times bigger… a palace! And how about her animal friends? Would they really be allowed inside?
Most of us have grown up watching Disney films and loving every character…wishing that someday we’ll have the same fates… (Of course we’re talking about the heroes and heroines who had their happily-ever-afters. Who’d want to end up like Malificent or the Evil Stepmother anyway?) But are they even close to what’s happening in real life? Or are we just fooling ourselves with the belief that everyone has a happy ending waiting for them? Say you found someone to spend the rest of your life with. Does it really end with the “I do”s? Of course not. Will everyone get a happy-ending? Probably not… Well, it depends on what you consider as “The End”.
3 comments:
I believe the journey is happier than the destination. :)
Hmnn, I still believe that I'll get my "happy ending" =) One failed love or relationship shouldn't be enough of a reason to believe otherwise.. When you finally find the right person, it's gonna be an even "happier ending" =)
"...and they lived happily ever after" is perhaps the most unimaginative way to end a story (not limited to romance). and very misleading too. marriage is not the end of a love story...who believes in that anymore when stark reality tells us that such instances hardly happen nowadays or probably ever (if at all)? which is why fairy tales can only serve to provide entertainment value to our humdrum existence or give us just a flicker of inspiration to our rather messy romantic endeavors. they just tell about the first phase of a romantic pursuit (a complicated process in its own), which is snagging a partner. what comes afterwards is much murkier and darker and who-knows-what-else.
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