Happily ever after??

There are no happily ever afters in life. And it’s true no matter what! And I’m not being pessimistic but just realistic when I say this. “happily ever after” (hea for future reference) is just a fairy tale concept and yet most movies and books end with hea’s don’t they?? Yes, they don’t state it that blatantly but we are supposed to understand it so that we leave the theatre with a smile on our faces and a satisfied feeling in the stomach (i.e. if the rest of the movie is decent or you might just be crying over the waste!) knowing that some fictional characters are now happy.

Sometime back I had started writing a post about why harry potter became as popular as it did (which I never got round to finishing and just deleted). It is indeed amazing to know that Harry Potter has achieved a kind of popularity that the Bible has taken 2 millenia to achieve. Does that mean it is one of the best books written till now? Definitely not. Literature has many master pieces to offer. Then what makes Harry Potter so different and so unique? Why was almost everyone hooked to it (me included :D )? Certainly not the best language (probably one of the reasons for the popularity) and well the idea of witches and wizards is certainly not novel. So I figured maybe it is the detail with which she wrote. Rowling created a different magical world that was almost realistic in its excruciating detail. It was like an escape from the limits of the muggle world. And that is what we all fell for. And ofcourse there was the part about the happy ending. Every book ended with Harry fighting the evil and emerging victorious to some extent atleast. Wasn’t it the most classic good vs the evil that has been around for centuries and will continue to be so??!? Then is it any surprise that HP got as popular?? And frankly you only need a few ardent fans and good publicity to get the rest to jump onto the bandwagon!

Same with twilight which was definitely the epitome of clichés! You see hea’s draw us since they don’t exist but we keep looking for it. And then when you manage to find it, even if its just in a book or a movie, it is almost like you have it for sometime! When so many imperfections crease your life a few hea’s are welcome I guess. Yes I know they are so not realistic and I would praise the movie more if it ends realistically (sometimes) but then I know that I like the hea.

A friend mentioned that Math always has a “happily ever after” and I think that is one of the fascinations. You always know that there is but one place to reach and that is the right one. The one where you should be. The solving can be tough and tedious and you might want to pull your hair but then the answer will be perfect when you get it. There are more than one correct ways of reaching there but its all in black and white. There are no gray areas since everything is either right or wrong. So unlike our lives!!!

There is no “happily ever after” in real life but that doesn’t stop one from wanting to see it once in a while if only it’s in the life of some fictional character.

(ahh that was probably quite incoherent and not well-organised but I think I managed to get across the major points I wanted to.)