Happily Ever After. What a disgusting phrase. What a terrible lie. What a heartbreaking saying. It's like some ancient proverb. Everyone uses it, but no one knows what it means. Stories told to small children of 'happily ever after.' Young couples dreaming of their chance at 'happily ever after.' The thought makes me cringe. Has anybody actually experienced this so-called 'happily ever after?' No? What a surprise. I honestly hated fairy tales as a young girl. My mother died too early in my life for me to believe in that nonsense. It's a shame. Young girls dreaming of their knights in shining armor. I pity them. They won't realize until they are older that there truly is no such thing.
Perhaps it was true. Some people do live quiet pleasant lives. Pleasant, however, is far from 'happily ever after.' It's quite unfortunate but it's true. Happily ever after is like saying that nothing bad will ever happen to you again. The thought makes me laugh. Nothing? Ever? If only. The hard truth of the matter is that eventually, you will get sick. Maybe your lover will get sick. Perhaps you or your lover will get injured. Eventually, you may have fights. Disagreements. Odds are you will have some sort of crisis. An argument with a friend? Maybe even the death of a friend. To watch someone die before your eyes? Someone you care about hurting someone? Maybe you hurt someone. Kill someone. I've seen my fair share of killing and hurt. But I can hardly say I'm used to it. Death is something no one grows accustomed to. Never. Death is unnatural yet all too natural. It seems, as a child, that death is something that doesn't exist. Stories tell of pain or eternal sleeps. But then never speak of death. Parents try to shield their children from it, but to what avail? Some day, something will happen to a relative or friend, and they will be introduced to death. Perhaps, one day, after watching people die around you, you become used to it. You might even wonder who will be next. It never occurs to you that you might be the next to go.
The possibility that you could be next never even enters your mind. If you were the next to go… Well that just wouldn't happen. It would be the end of your 'happily ever after,' which obviously means it can't happen.
People are foolish to believe in happily ever afters. One day, you will have to watch someone you care about get hurt. They will die. Death brings sadness. Not only will people you care about die, but people in your family. People who are very close to your heart. People who own your heart. Yes, even they fall eventually. Then, you will. After that, you will be buried in a box, where your body will be held for an eternity. Maybe you will go to Heaven. Maybe you'll end up in Hell. Maybe neither. Maybe you will just end up rotting in a box, where people can cry and lay flowers on a rock over your head.
So, people need to give up on these illusions of living happily ever after. They don't exist. People need to get a grip on reality and live life, because everyone knows death could be only a step away. And once they are dead, people will mourn them. Then the mourners will die. Then their mourners will die. Thus is the cycle. Everyone dies. No one has a happily ever after.
No one.