sunshine for you.

2005-11-13

ever noticed how books are always about the beautiful blonde girl, who's life may fall apart, but at the end, every piece will be put back in place, and there will be an equally beautiful boy waiting for her?

or if we don't talk about beautiful, there will be the girl who is not beautiful in the Hollywood way, but there will always be something inherently attractive about her, or at least something good happens to her and and her life once again is constructed perfectly around her?

for the benefit of martina, it doesn't only happen in chick lit. in your average mystery thriller or fast-paced action book, there'll somehow be a Significant Other Hero/Heroine who will wind up happily ever after with the Hero/Heroine.

i sometimes wonder what is it with books and their happy endings. i thought, why can't it be about someone normal, who's life has problems, and on the last page of the book, some problems may have disappeared, but then there will always be new ones. then i realise it's because that's how life is all the time. who needs to read about everyday life when you can live it out yourself?

and i also realise i like it anyway. i don't wanna read a book where the ending is all sad and i am sobbing into my pillow. it's a waste of my feelings. so i read the happy, and it's what i keep doing, living vicariously through these characters which allow me to live in abit of a dream.

note to self: refrain from writing like this in the future. i sound like some 40 year old spinster who only goes out of her home to buy groceries and food for her cats.