Fairy Tales

Why can’t stories have a happy ending? Why doesn’t the girl always find an amazing guy, fall in love, and live happily ever after? Why is it that that is rarely the case? I guess that not every girl gets her happy ending; look at the evil step sisters, they didn’t get the man. Fairy Tales lead you to believe that if you try hard, are the good girl, that you will get the amazing guy; they lie. When does that ever work? When does the good girl get the guy in the real story? If she is truly the good girl, when things go wrong, or when other duties demand, when other things are more important than true love, she will give it up. If she were the good girl that tales lead you to believe are the ones that get the man, she would put everything before love. She would not be selfish and demand that the love be carried out, but she would recognize that the other things are more important than her happiness, her true love. So how does the good girl get the man? Things will never work out for her. But she can’t be the rude, evil one; she knows it’s not right. So where does that leave her? She cares for those around her, but also her own happiness, so which one wins out in the end? Not everyone gets what they want, hardly anyone actually. Who wants misery? Failure? To be incomplete? No one. Maybe that’s the point, you never get what you want. There’s a reason why it’s a fairy tale, it’s not true. But does that mean that the ending isn’t true either? That the happy ending isn’t even achievable for those whose lives aren’t written with care in ink? How can that be true? How can there never be a happy ending? When you are faced with love and doing the things you know are right what do you do? But isn’t happiness also right? Happiness is selfishness; but why can’t it be right? Why is choosing something that makes you happy always defined as being selfish?