OUR LIFE WILL ALWAYS BE A TRAGEDY

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The difference between a story and a reality is the fact that a story ends in a point that is decided by the author. He can end it after the resolution of conflicts. For an instance, when the boy decides to condemn himself in a curse that is commonly called a wedding so that they can live happily ever after, before they rest in peace. In a typical Filipino plot for example that has been around for decades, you can know that the story is ending when the hero has killed the villain and the police arrived so that the leading lady can kiss his man. When all the monsters are killed, when the protagonist survives and the favorite line of fairy tale fans “And they lived happily ever after” appear or heard. All of the previous examples are happy endings as we call today.


It is a typical behavior that are not amused when the main character dies. We hate tragedies. Tragedy is characterized by one thing. According to my English teacher, tragedy does not have a happy ending. The death of titanic is a classic example. How about the life of Abe Lincoln? Have we read the Moby dick? Story and reality are two similar, but different things as I mentioned earlier.
Each individual human person has his own realities. When someone dies, it is the end of reality for him. This thought suggests that our life is a big tragedy. We are all approaching a common ending. Sooner or later we are facing it. Death. If life is a tragedy, then, must it be ugly? When we live in the light of what is coming for us, will it ever do well if it means we are going to die? Will we live a hopeless life because we already know that we can’t evade that scary fate? Another question enters my mind. Does the end define the story?
I just learned that happy are the ones who live their lives in the light of their inevitable ending. We will end that’s a fact and a reality. How will we react to that? What have we done before we our end conquers us? Everything including this world will end. Just like the stories, the ending is not the whole thing. The ending is just a part of series of events. The best way to live is live our lives happily before we meet our final tragedy.

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