Hmmm... happy endings? I would think that for something to be a happy ending, that first of all it must be happy... of course. Second it must be an end of something. In this story the end of that something seems to be life, “Eventually they die. This is the end of the story,” as the author put it. The problem with this is that not all the deaths in the story are happy endings, this shows that all endings are not the same “however you slice it,” as the author puts it. Plus the story just kind of moves on until it can rest in a relationship where the couple doesn’t cheat on each other.
As for “authentic ending” the author couldn’t of been more correct, in the end we will all die and we all know that… but no matter what kind of a happy ending anyone has, it is our call to remind everyone that there is a life after this one which has no ending. Then is when things will matter most, because in heaven life will be much better with no happy endings, rather eternal happiness. And if eternal happiness is found in Christ, then that must mean that only true happiness that is worth anything is also found in Christ. I don’t believe anyone can truly reach happiness without Christ because He is the only thing that can really fill our hearts up.
In these stories we see a lot of messed up things and the one that touched me the most was B, where the girl lets the guy use her. It hits me most and gets me mad too, because we see this a lot in our world. Last time I checked, over 1,000,000 teen girls alone in America get pregnant each year. I believe the reason is because a guy will have a girl that loves them and because the girl looks for happiness, or true love in that boy, she will do whatever keeps the boy happy even if it causes her pain in life. She seeks for something to fill her heart with and Prince Charming is the only thing that will ever do that and she is so convinced. But when we seek completeness or “happiness” in things outside of God we will always end up empty handed.
“Happiness without God is but a glimpse of it”
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Yeah it is pretty crazy how some of the endings turn out but just how we discussed in class it is reality. Sad to say cases like those in the book take place every day and most times we aren’t even aware of it until we read it in a textbook. While reading your post what resounded in my mind was, is there anything I am capable of doing to prevent cases like these?
ReplyDeleteVery true. Maybe another task for Us is to learn how we can love people around us now in order to make sure that those girls that are falling for "Prince Charming" have people speaking into their lives to make sure that Charming puts a ring on it if he likes it.
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