Bad Endings
This past week, as I was brainstorming what to write for this blog post, certain things happened, to get me thinking about endings. Everyone knows everything in life has an ending, a book, a movie, relationships, friendships and life. For the most part, nobody really knows how something will end.
When a writer writes, we may predict that we know how our ending will go at the beginning. Then the story line may take us in another direction, because the plot thickens. When we get to the end, it may be something we never expected, whether it's good or bad.
Bad endings suck and nobody likes a bad ending, but they happen. We live and experience an ending to something everyday, in someway, somehow. If someone gets on an airplane and it crashes, that's an ending that nobody wanted, it's bad, but it happens.
If we read a book and we want the characters to do something different, than what the writer wrote, it's still an ending. Watching a movie and seeing a hero die off, instead of the bad guy, in the end, it's still an ending.
Some say that something must end, before something new can begin. In some scenarios, I agree. I am all for new beginnings, because they are fresh and unknown.
Then there is the one topic, that has slaughtered us all, at one point or another. That of course would be love. Every love story has an ending, sometimes good and others bad. Nobody can ever predict the ending of love, yet some say true love never ends.
If two people end up together when they are young; have two kids together and he leaves her after their second child, to pursue his career and full fill his own dreams, he gave their story a bad ending. If the man returns later, pretending to be someone different, because he needs inspiration, then leaves again, then repeats the process several more times, he prolonged the bad ending that he had already given her.
All things come to an end at one point or another. We don't always get the ending that we plan for, or hope for, or want, but it's an ending. We can hope for a happy ending, because it gives us something to look forward to. Everyone wants to be happy, that is why we disillusion ourselves, into thinking the ending will always be happy.
Take the guy that left his family for his career, he ruined the woman's ending. She probably thought that he was once the perfect man for her, she had a happy ending plotted out. He couldn't give her a happy ending, because he had already given her to many bad endings. Finally she realized it and accepted, the only ending that she would have with him, was a bad prolonged ending.
Every story comes to an end, we can try and write the ending any way we want to, we don't always get what we want in life, because life happens and it ends eventually as well. The only way to accept a bad ending, is to look for a new beginning. The story may be different from what we had planned, but it's a beginning.
If someone's job unexpectedly comes to an end, it's not the ending they may have wanted. The next day that same person may go out and get another job and a new beginning, to a new story.
If a writer has their writing stolen from them and stops writing, because it has happened to many times, it's a bad ending. Not the ending that any writer would want, but it happens.
My point is, if you hate an ending that you have, because it's bad, let it go. Yes it may suck, but somethings in life are supposed to, because they have to end. Never prolong a bad ending, let it go and start searching for a new beginning.
Everyone Have a Great Week!
Bobbie
XoXoXo
When a writer writes, we may predict that we know how our ending will go at the beginning. Then the story line may take us in another direction, because the plot thickens. When we get to the end, it may be something we never expected, whether it's good or bad.
Bad endings suck and nobody likes a bad ending, but they happen. We live and experience an ending to something everyday, in someway, somehow. If someone gets on an airplane and it crashes, that's an ending that nobody wanted, it's bad, but it happens.
If we read a book and we want the characters to do something different, than what the writer wrote, it's still an ending. Watching a movie and seeing a hero die off, instead of the bad guy, in the end, it's still an ending.
Some say that something must end, before something new can begin. In some scenarios, I agree. I am all for new beginnings, because they are fresh and unknown.
Then there is the one topic, that has slaughtered us all, at one point or another. That of course would be love. Every love story has an ending, sometimes good and others bad. Nobody can ever predict the ending of love, yet some say true love never ends.
If two people end up together when they are young; have two kids together and he leaves her after their second child, to pursue his career and full fill his own dreams, he gave their story a bad ending. If the man returns later, pretending to be someone different, because he needs inspiration, then leaves again, then repeats the process several more times, he prolonged the bad ending that he had already given her.
All things come to an end at one point or another. We don't always get the ending that we plan for, or hope for, or want, but it's an ending. We can hope for a happy ending, because it gives us something to look forward to. Everyone wants to be happy, that is why we disillusion ourselves, into thinking the ending will always be happy.
Take the guy that left his family for his career, he ruined the woman's ending. She probably thought that he was once the perfect man for her, she had a happy ending plotted out. He couldn't give her a happy ending, because he had already given her to many bad endings. Finally she realized it and accepted, the only ending that she would have with him, was a bad prolonged ending.
Every story comes to an end, we can try and write the ending any way we want to, we don't always get what we want in life, because life happens and it ends eventually as well. The only way to accept a bad ending, is to look for a new beginning. The story may be different from what we had planned, but it's a beginning.
If someone's job unexpectedly comes to an end, it's not the ending they may have wanted. The next day that same person may go out and get another job and a new beginning, to a new story.
If a writer has their writing stolen from them and stops writing, because it has happened to many times, it's a bad ending. Not the ending that any writer would want, but it happens.
My point is, if you hate an ending that you have, because it's bad, let it go. Yes it may suck, but somethings in life are supposed to, because they have to end. Never prolong a bad ending, let it go and start searching for a new beginning.
Everyone Have a Great Week!
Bobbie
XoXoXo
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