TM 244: Happy Endings

[onetime_actor]

"That's something I think is growing on me as I get older: happy endings." -- Alice Munro (Bringing Life to Life)The woman I love believes in fairy tales. I don't mean that she believes the stories really happened (although, at this point, Lorna could tell me that just about anything really happened, and that she saw it, and it wouldn't be any

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[erikscordelia]

[onetime_actor]

So it's the 'ever after' to focus on, not just 'happily'?

[erikscordelia]

[onetime_actor]

Do you think they stayed together?

[starspangledcap]

Do we have evidence that things can't be happy evermore?

[onetime_actor]

The fact that it's never happened, combined with the inevitability of death? Other than that?

[starspangledcap]

How do we know it's never happened?

The world feeds on shock and sadness. If someone truly lived happily ever after, would they advertise it?

I don't think the phrase is meant to imply anything after death.

[erikscordelia]

[skids_sally]

There's no such thing as "happily ever after" and only stories ever really end. People keep on going, with all these new beginnings.

Some would like even say that death is a new beginning.

[onetime_actor]

Depending on your spiritual perspective, I suppose it could be.

Ask Jean, I guess.

[skids_sally]

Well, like Ms. Grey is the Phoenix and the phoenix is always being reborn so yeah.

[onetime_actor]

Is that why the internet is trying to advertise "Phoenix university" at me?

What is Phoenix University?

*locked*

Are you okay?