4-19-2022

We like to think there will be a day when we will no longer have any worries. No longer have to fight. This thing called life, it will come easy to us. Something will happen, some moment, where our troubles will disappear and we can finally sail off into the sunset. It is the notion of happily ever after. We need only pay our dues for so long and then all that has ailed us will disappear. Once we fall in love, once we get that job, once we get that payout, then we’ll be happy. Then we’ll be okay. Thinking in this manner makes existing in our present circumstances just a little more bearable. There is a light at the end of the tunnel, we just have to stick it out until we arrive at the end. The trouble is, a light does exist, but it isn’t what we want it to be. It’s death. An end to everything. And no matter what we do, we’ll continue inching closer towards it. But just because we arrive at that light doesn’t mean we’ll actually make any progress in becoming the person we want to become. We will simply cease surviving. The happily ever after we get is the extinction of our lives. Is that really what we want?

We’d do well to dash the idea of happily ever after from our minds. Embrace the fact that the battle will never end. It begins everyday. And by engaging in the battle, we are given the opportunity to see who we can really become. And it is through constant discovery that we find our true happily ever after. But it is not a destination. No, it is a journey unto itself. And we are the only ones who can chart it.