Happy Ending Analysis

Happy Ending
By Pyrine When I’m reading a novel, I hate it when the writer suddenly kills the protagonists or if the character I’m rooting for dies. There’s this WTH feeling that the writer suddenly cheated and I would lose all interest in continuing with the story. Thank you very much Markus Zusak for killing my favorite Rudy Steiner. While clichés put us off happy endings, we definitely prefer a much more light and hopeful ending that might not end with the protagonists having a jump shot by the beach but at least holding hands while the sun sets on the background. Our fascination with sad endings seems to stem from our own eagerness to set ourselves apart from what’s mainstream, from what’s “masa.” We all have this intellectual elitism

Weiland, in the 2003 film adaptation of Peter Pan, Wendy describes the stories she’s been telling the Lost Boys as “adventures, in which good triumphs over evil,” to which Captain Hook sneers, “They all end in a kiss.” Like Wendy and the Lost Boys, millions of people escape into the world of fiction to find happily ever after endings. We cheer when the good guy defeats the villain. We applaud when true love conquers all. We find hope and encouragement in the fictional examples that peace and happiness await on the other side of seemingly insurmountable trials. Without doubt, happy endings are enjoyable, uplifting, and

But then, why not look for the good stuff that you learned or the good people you met? Surely there is a redeeming factor that may not be at the end but located somewhere in the middle. Or at the very least, be sure to mitigate the fallout from the bad ending that, unfortunately, has befallen you.
Analyze what might have gone wrong if it’s an undertaking that involves technical stuff. If it involves relationships, (romantic or not) this is not the way to go. Talk to him/her. Be sure that there is closure between you two. Who can say? Maybe after a few months or even years, you might even be friends again. It might not be the good ending that involves bouts of butterflies flying in our stomachs and the general feel of victory floating in the air, but hey, at least it is not the mind-numbing depression that a bad ending naturally results into.
Because at the end of the day, while we deserve no less than whatever it is that we deserve, no less than it is that we dream of, we will also get nowhere if we keep on dwelling on our failures, frustrations and mistakes. We will also get nowhere if we keep focusing our sights too far down the road and not, every once in a while, on the things we encounter along the way. The travel is less fun without admiring the great sceneries along the road, you