We are all - whether unconsciously or consciously - working towards a common goal. Our Happy Ever After.
Everyone is the main character of their own story and they it to include a happy ending as much as I do, and the one after me.
We are living together but at the same time - we all go individually our own ways.
We each live our own story. We just don't know our story line, our rising action, plot and resolution. In hindsight, we will see the storyline.
We can see our upsides, our downsides, where we failed and got up again. In hindsight, nothing seems like a big deal.
In sad days, we make ourselves believe that there will happy days again. Even though we don't know when our last happy day will be. We give ourselves the illusion that we know more than we actually do. Because uncertainty is scary, it always was.
How do we know what, who to choose? And what if it changes our lives forever? Or changes you?
And stories give you the assurance that everything will make sense in the end. That everything will be explained, everything will be a reward or a lesson.
So I have come to a conclusion, love:
I have decided to give everything so much attention as if my life would depend on it. Because after all, there is no guarantee on anything but change.
We will never know what's going to happen next. We don't know if we will have our Happy Ever After and yet it is something that keeps us going. They tell us it will all be worth it in the end and it will keep us going.
We don't know if we will have the things we had tomorrow, or tomorrow's tomorrow.
We don't know when our happiest moment in our life is - we only realise it in hindsight when it seems a far once-upon-a-time moment again and we will wish we had enjoyed it and the drug of happiness that rushed through our blood a little bit longer.
We say "'till next time!"
We don't know when we'll see our loved ones again.
We don't know if we'll ever come to this place again.
Looking at it this way, we actually know very little.
These encouragements make us feel a bit safer, a bit more secure. They assure us that everything will remain the same, that everything will be good, or better.
Yet there is no guarantee, no promise of any of that. And yet it keeps us going.
So I realised, love, that doing things to reach the Happy Ever After is going after all the causes of happiness we know.
It is chasing things that could turn into fairy dust any moment.
And if we were to chase things, it should be for a purpose. And with the little things we know, we walk.
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