Thoughts with Emma: Happy Endings

I've grown up on fairy tales. I grew up with Disney. I love happy endings! Everyone likes happy endings.

But as I've made my way through the world of the internet I found out the happy endings teams are split up into two groups. The sappy romantics and the ones who just don't like happy endings (I swear some of them just like being depressed). Of course not everyone is like those two groups there are some people who just don't think about it or some who just don't care.
The ones who don't like happy endings, sometimes have good reasons. Maybe their parents are split or they fight a lot, some have been a relationship that has been less than happy, there are so many reasons. But some just don't like it because they like being miserable (I know that sounds harsh, but it's pretty true).
Then we have the sappy romantics... *sigh*. The innocent romantics. These people have the notion that the world is full of rainbows and butterflies and the world's people are classified by 'good and bad'. Of course, this isn't everyone, but people who are sappy romantics think that once they find the 'love of their life' everything will be good. Everything will be fine.
But the bitter truth is that... everything won't be fine. To get a 'happy ending', it takes a lot of work.

So do happy endings exist? I don't really know. Life is a convoluted, horrible thing when you look at it. You're born, you live, you die. That's life in a nut shell. I could just say, it's how you look at it and how you take things, but I really don't want to say that (way too cliche).
Life sucks. First piece of advice my brother gave me.
Now I like to think of myself as a happy person, I like making people happy and I like the world to be filled with rainbows and butterflies, but it's not. It just isn't. But does this mean we have to mope around and mutter 'life sucks' and reply to everything sarcastically? No! And yes I'm speaking to you people who don't like happy endings. Life does suck, but it'll suck even more if you have a sucky outlook.
Now to you sappy romantics, life isn't always happy... again, it just isn't! When you find the 'love of your life', there are going to be moments when you fight and you'll hate it. There will be moments that life just isn't happy, but don't let that get you down. Keep being happy, but realize the reality of life.
So back to happy endings... are they real? Maybe in some sense of the word. But the difference between fiction and reality is that fiction stops when the writer writes 'the end' or when the director says cut to that last scene of a movie. In reality, life moves on. There are other scenes after the wedding scene, there are arguments never seen in movies or read in books. I think the phrase 'I want a happy ending' is kind of superficial, because when is your happy ending? When you die?
But I guess if you die living a full filled life, that's kind of a happy ending in it's self.

So I know this post probably won't make any sense to anyone else-but myself- and is a little convoluted but that's why it's called Thoughts with Emma. Everyone's thoughts aren't nicely organized. This is really just a rant :)
And for a bonus here's some stuff on Google I found relating to this post:
happy endings are still endings
no happy ending
I want a happy ending
And a video!