… And they lived happily ever after! Is the biggest line that makes us happy, on having reached the logical end of a story. Rags to Riches, Struggle to Success; or Pain to Pleasure. We are all programmed with that escape clause. Once you move from one stage to another, this is portrayed as the ultimate destination, and not a new journey.
What happened to the seven goats in the story of Seven goats and the wolf, or to Little Red Riding Hood – what kind of girl did she grow up to be? What happened to the three little pigs – did they remain little all their lives? What happened to Jack in Jack and the beanstalk after he managed to kill the giant. In all these stories the rise is always towards the sky. No one will tell you how to sustain a state of success, but every one will tell you ways and means of achieving success from despair. Our movies are modelled that way, our conversations are modelled that way, our stories are modelled that way, and so are our modern day idols.
We are conditioned to think that life is a honey moon, and struggle, or challenges are just a temporary phenomenon. Once you taste success, you will succeed and only succeed. Those who think that are condemned to revisit history, and those who do not want to hope to press the ESC button in life or the Ctrl-Alt-Del button in their lives.
We all love to escape from reality or reboot life rather than confront it, or better still hope to hear …And they lived happily every after.
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