do you believe in fairytale happy endings?

cinderella - fairytale always have happy endings.
Philippines
February 11, 2012 10:32am CST
as a kid, i always wanted to read fairytale story books or watch fairytale cartoons or movies. i had dreamed of playing the role of snow white, cinderella or sleeping beauty who found the love of their lives and kissed and loved and lived happily ever after! but really, when we grow up, we know that the world works kinda differently from fairytale stories. life, as we know it, can sometimes end up not happily but sometimes tragically. shoot, i wished i was a kid again so that i would still have that great faith in happy endings.. because for now, i can't see a happy ending for me. where are you love of my life???
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@tessa9 (1085)
• Philippines
12 Feb 12
I do believe in happy ever after. I am 21 so I know that heartbreak and stuff like that exist and not all love story has a happy ending but that does not stop me from believing that I can have my own fairytale. I actually played Snow White in a school play and that is where I had my first kiss lol, you know that part where the prince had to kiss her in the glass coffin to bring her back to life. Thinking about it, I can't believe they actually allowed us to really kiss because we were only like 13 or 14 at that time.
• United States
11 Feb 12
I stopped believing in them after a lot of failed relationships and heartache. As I've grown older and learned that I can't change anyone but me, it made me decide not to accept people in my life who didn't have the same values as me. This has changed my world, and for the last couple of years I have had the fairy tale I only ever dreamed about.
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@palonghorn (5479)
• United States
12 Feb 12
My best friend as a little wall hanging at her house, it says, It's never too late to live happily ever after. Yes, I do believe it can happen, maybe not like in the fairy tales, but we can all make our own happy ending. And I agree that life throws you curves, but if it's worth it, you can make it have a good outcome. It might not be the first time around, I have been divorced 3 times, but eventually you will meet the right person, and have your own happy ending. I also believe that things happen for a reason, and if you look back at your own history, and you take out any one thing that happened, look at how the outcome would be. If I hadn't divorced the first time and remarried, I wouldn't have my oldest daughter, and had I not married the 3rd time I wouldn't have my youngest daughter.......If I hadn't moved to another state to be with 'the one' I wouldn't have had the opportunity to work at my dream job for 3 years! So, things do happen for a reason, just keep believing in the magic, and you can make your own happy ending!
@Triple0 (1904)
• Australia
12 Feb 12
Every kid wishes their lives was like a fairytale. I watched a lot of those Disney films when I was a kid, they all shared the same happy endings, of course reality is not like that. The movie stops when the couple get married or something but what about what happens after. Fairy tales use to be very dark a long time ago though, they weren't always happy ever after. The original fairy tales were Gothic and disturbing stories but then it turned into happy children's tales. So they weren't always so happy before.
@WakeUpKitty (8694)
• Netherlands
11 Feb 12
If you read the fairy tales in the right way you see that only if the person is action, doing where he/she is believing in (and this is not necessary obeying) the end will be happy. Perhaps different as expected but happy. If you decide to be happy you will.
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• China
12 Feb 12
Well,there alway exists distance between the I-and the real.Even though,I still believe that.Because happy endings are multitudinal.When you find the kind of yours,you are happy.Please keep your great faith in happy endings and you will get yours in the short run.
@GemmaR (8517)
11 Feb 12
I think that there can be a happy ending, and even if things aren't perfect we have to come to the conclusion that there are some things in our lives that we just cannot change no matter what we do. Life is never going to be perfect, but you just have to get your head around not having everything that you want in your life, but still being able to be happy and content with the things that you've got and be satisfied about the things that you can't have. Life is too short to not be happy about what you've managed to get for yourself.
@maezee (41997)
• United States
11 Feb 12
I don't really believe in that kind of thing. They are just unrealistic... Movie endings... Real life has a lot more bumps in the road, I have noticed. As I'm sure you all have noticed, as well. I think that good people can meet great people, amazing things can happen, but there are always challenges we face in life that we don't see on Cinderella. And there are no guarantees for a 'happily ever after'. Which is good because that might be a boring way to live, anyway. Who doesn't crave a little adversity in life?