I once was a person who believed life should end up like a romantic comedy. It should be two people who knew from the start that they were meant for one another. Even through obstacles, challenges, tests and years or miles of separation they would always know there was something there. Maybe some slapstick, headache inducing "problems" arise, maybe it would be a challenge of wrong timing. Who knows what the obstacles would be, but there would definitely be obstacles, but in the end it was meant to be happily ever after. The glass slipper. The book Love in the Time of Cholera. The letters, written every day, showing that you were on their mind every single day. Something that would get you to happily ever after... definitely!
Once in my life I tried to make real life into those moments. I lead myself to believe this could be that real life fairy tale, but it was forced. The fairly tale was not real life, or real life isn't a fairy tale. No matter how hard I tried real life could never be made into a romantic comedy and you don't find yourself in those situations where it's just handed to you... here is your happily ever after. Instead, real life is hard work. It's getting to a place of comfort and love, but there will never be the moment when you realize it's your happily ever after. Right? There is no carriage ride into the sunset, not in real life, right?
I'm lucky for where I am now. You could always second guess yourself, wonder about the "what ifs" in life, where is my sweep you off your feet moment, but why? Real life is love & patience. It is family & strength. It is fighting & making up. It is us, working together for us. No sunset waiting for you, the life you pick doesn't end with a happily ever after, because it is constantly moving forward, living the life. My life now is full. Full of love & happiness, because of the place I call home. I know that I am loved, I have everything but the white picket fence. The beautiful house, doggy, and my own, personal family, that loves me! No use in looking for the moment, that romantic comedy, love story moment, because it doesn't actually happen in real life. There is no happily ever after, because it doesn't end at sunset, it goes on...
No The End?
