The Moral of AKG In My Head. · 12:10pm May 8th, 2015
There has been a weird culling of happy endings of late.
This all comes from the idea that hope is obsolete. This idea has been going around since the mid-nineties. People will have more "respect" for a story if it takes a turn for the worse. This has lead to a lot of fiction coming out that end in, what I like to call "Rocks Fall and everyone dies" scenarios. Giving you a sad ending just to have a sad ending. This way you could gain more "respect" because you're being more "realistic".
Except you're not.
This is nothing more than pessimists attempting to write fiction. Don't get me wrong, sometimes they can write very good fiction, but it is never... EVER anything close to what real life is like. This is all simply defeatism under the guise of realism.
I'm going to tell you something that is going to blow your mind. You are not going to believe me, but it is absolutely %100 true.
Real life tends towards happy endings.
Even if you don't believe in an afterlife. Even if you believe the soul dies with the body, I want you to think about something.
My father passed away at the age of 44. He died of a carcenoid of the liver when he was far to young. If you were to look at those facts as they are, that is a pretty sad ending...
But consider this: My father married a girl he was head over heels for, had two fairly handsome sons ;), published I think over 25 books, won several awards for them (three Edgar awards, and one Agatha award), he had a huge family that loved him and to this day I can't find one person who met him who didn't like him. I'm not even sure if there were any.
My dad's life didn't have a sad ending. He just got through the last line of his story a little fast.
And he lived happily ever after.
There is so much more to that sentence than meets the eye. It would take up volumes. It would multiply the length of the story 1,000 fold.
Are there unhappy endings? Hell yes. They can come in three ways.
1) A villain ends your story for you.
2) You are the villain to end someone else's story.
3) (This is the big one) You. Give. Up.
I can't help you with the first two. Those are up to circumstance. But the third one is really important.
No matter how sad the story can get sometimes. No matter how hard it gets. You have to KEEP READING. That last line is waiting for every single one of us. It's there if you keep looking for it.
And for those of you who have already experienced so much hardship, I want you to take a good long look at your life and consider that maybe... MAYBE your already living your happy ending.
.... Did that make ANY sense at all?
Couldn't have said it better myself dude.
That was rather beautiful.
This fandom sure does like taking happy or sad endings and seeing something completely different from a new angle.
*wipes away a single tear* Beautiful.