Do you think life is a book? or a movie? You know, that life is following the same sequence as a novel or screen play would. Life imitating art perhaps?
A lot people I've noticed make references to their respective lives being like sitcoms or novels. I myself feel as though my life is a Lifetime film. For those of you who aren't familiar to Lifetime its called "television for women," need I say more?
I wonder why people do this? Why do we want our lives to be movies or novels? I guess if my life was actually a Lifetime film it would hold some significance. Thousands of women between the age's of 27 to 35 would tune in on 9pm on a Saturday night to watch what happened to Aditi Sharma. I guess in a way I'd be a role model, no?
The reason we do this (I believe) is because most movies and books have happy endings. No matter how shitty shit gets everything will come together and we will in fact live happily ever after...fade to white..roll credits.
Imagine, if there was no promise for a happy ending? Why would you continue to live? One day somebody came up to you and said you are going to die alone in your one bedroom apartment. Nobody will know for days, until your neighbors smell something peculiar. They'll find you a week later almost half eaten by your cats.
Why would you go on?
But here is the absolutely horrifying thing...there is no promise for a happy ending. There isn't, nobody told us that we would happy ending..I mean movies did and so did novels but those are not the ruling authority...
So yes some might argue that most novels and films are inspired by true events...but that doesn't mean that the hundreds of billions of people that inhabit the planet will live happily ever after.
Sad Shock. ouch.
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