Persistent Thoughts
Media. From our crawling, shrieking days to our now cynical and mostly-busy days, we have been exposed to different forms of it all our lives. Books, sitcoms and movies are an integral part of just about everyone's life. Have you ever stopped to think about how most of the stories in all these are portrayed? How many times have we heard the phrase "happy ending"? Almost every other book or movie you come across will have this happy ending. The hero and the heroine get together, family feuds are resolved, the protagonist kills the antagonist and peace prevails. That about sums up most books or movies. Their endings at least. Why is it that humans are attracted to such "happy endings"? Once you reach your mid-20s at least, you realize that such perfect endings are a farce for most part at least. Maybe it is because most humans are delusional. We crave utopia in our ways and since we are unable to find it in reality, we crave it elsewhere - in