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Crap from Disney movies and cheesy faery tales that humans manage to screw up beyond belief?

If it's such crap, then why do people want to believe in it so badly?

Why are there so many cheesy faery tales?

I don't believe it, but then I know what faeries are really like.

Because humans are stupid?

There are always two parts to any story: subjective and objective - and no one, human or otherwise can tell a story objectively.

And I'm not so sure that humans are so stupid. The stories that end with happily ever after are called fantasy for a reason. They aren't meant to represent the truth, but what matters is what anyone does with what they get from the story.

I rather think that most people would like to have the hope that happily ever after gives them. That there is more to life than struggle.

However, what is interesting to me is that these stories always end with happily ever after - they don't define the term itself. Almost like choosing your own adventure.

Well, it's a fairy tale. A fantasy.

Oh, don't be so scientific.

Because it can't be real, or because it doesn't happen very often?

And what do you think happily ever after is supposed to be, anyway? If it wasn't/isn't just a fantasy...Is it just a series of days where you're genuinely happy? Or is it a personal decision - on average, I was really happy from this point on?

Hopefully really real? I'm not so sure. I guess it's when you finally meet that someone who..not quite completes you, but makes you better. You're perfect without them, but overly amazing with them.

I don't know. I've never had one.

So, you need that someone for happily ever after...but do you do anything? or is it just supposed to be some sort of suspended animation where nothing goes wrong and the two of you just exist?

Overly amazing sounds wonderful though - only good days of complete happiness.

I guess you look at all the people around you, and keep searching and waiting for the right person to fall upon you. And then you learn everything you can about them, and I guess eventually you realize you're in love with them.

It does sound very wonderful.

(Crap, wrong account. But this is theluckster. xD)

So, happily ever after is just being in love? Well, not just - there is no just to being in love, but is there more to it than that?

If that's all there is, then there might be hope yet!

[to the reply from the other account :)]

I'm sure people can have happily ever afters without love--but I doubt I'm that sort of person.

Maybe happily ever after is when you finally feel content.

(<3)

I think you need to be in love with someone or something to start a happily ever after - and I think contentment is the right word.

And then once you're content and living your life - you're living your happily ever after? I like that idea. I also like that you have to define it for yourself. It has always bothered me when people think they can tell you when something has happened for you.

I think you're right.

I don't like it when people tell you what your life is like, or how you feel, or any of that. I mean, it's not their place to tell us how we feel.

Hopefully a long, long way away.

Really?

Why do you want it to be a long way away?

Well, it's the end, isn't it? Me, I've got so much more to see and do. So much more adventure to be had! No, I hope I don't see my happily ever after for a good long time.

Happily ever after can't include adventure?

I'm just curious - what do you see happily ever after as?

I'm not sure what I think it is anymore.

Not the way I think of it. If there was more adventure, why wouldn't the story just keep going?

Not to say it wouldn't be nice-- it is happily ever after, I s'pose. But I'm not ready for that right now. I've got my whole life ahead of me! Why would I wanna stop now?

That's interesting.

Well, what if it weren't the end of the story - what if it was just the part where the story wasn't written down anymore (or yet)?

But nobody uses it that way! If the story keeps going, it just... ends. And then there's more later. But happily ever after isn't until the very end. That's just how it is.

I don't know. I never really thought about it before. I never had a happily ever after, y'know, and I'm alright. More than that, really-- I haven't been this happy in a long while. But life can't be all happy, or we'd all be bored to death. There has to be adventure, and when there's no more adventure... well, what's the point?

Maybe people use it the way they do because they want to stop that particular chapter - even if it is novel length.

Good question - I was just thinking that if adventure is what makes you happy, then maybe having lots of adventures is your happily ever after. It doesn't have to be marrying a prince and going to do who knows what.

Maybe we should stop settling for how everybody does things...might make the story better when it's finally finished. I mean, what else are series for?

Well that's good. In my general experience, princes can be awfully dim stuck-up stuffedshirts with no sense of fun. Royalty's too concerned with outward appearances. Who cares if they're made of tin or stuffed with straw, as long as they've got an appreciation for exploration? That's what's important!

Oh, I can understand that. Oz has quite a few notable Official Historians, and they all tell things differently. But that's history for you, I s'pose.

History isn't even written by the winners - it's written by their official scribes...who would like it be a lot more interesting (and a lot easier to understand) than it usually is.

A lot of royalty is - sometimes you get lucky though...sometimes.

Believe me, I know. Though a lot of the time, our Historians were a bit purposefully vague on some things. And awfully cheeky, too!

Oh yes. Ozma-- that's our Empress, Ozma the Great-- she's wonderful, if a little too serious, most of the time, but that's royalty. We were best friends, growing up! And the Prince and Princess of the Hilands and Lolands are pretty nice, and a lot of the royal family of Ev. And that's without even mentioning Santa Claus.

So, yes, I agree, a lot of the time they're good people. But I would never, ever marry one. Eugh. Blech.

Many people make the mistake of seeing it as an ending. Where really, it's more of a whole succession of new beginnings.