happy endings

Is there something as a truly happy ending? Do two people really find happiness with each other for eternity? Do soul mates and kindred spirits exist? How about fate and destiny?

I’m asking this cuz am getting sick and tired of these lovey-dovey movies about two young kids meeting and a few days later they are all ‘happily ever after’

I mean why aren’t we told about the first break-up or when the girl realizes that the dude is dogging her or when the shag loses meaning, eeeh? Or simply when the love fizzles out?

For a love story, won’t the portrayal of how human beings in love solve their problems be of far much importance than the idea of a flawless love affair that rarely takes place!

Cynical you think but aren’t we as a society eager to believe the impossible such that we’d search for fantasies and illusions to compare our boring lives with?

Studies have even shown that it is this unrealistic, far-from-reality relationships, that we see on telly that have contributed to problems in real life relationships. Don’t we all know about that previously happy couple where the girl started complaining that the dude wasn’t romantic or gentleman enuff, with her idea of these two attributes borrowed from an unrealistic phillipino soap opera? Didn’t her lack of chivalry in her relationship lead to the gal falling out –of – love with a true and right partner cuz he can’t be Alejandro enuff?

And just like that a realistic relationship goes down the drain whereas all it had taken was for the mama to appreciate her man and what she already had and if there were setbacks talk to with her partner and together they’d have seen the realistic way forward?

What I’m really saying, without being cynical, is that directors need to shot some realistic flick for once; a drama set in reality where it is boy meets gal, gets her number after a while, takes her out, grow to know her in a realistic way as in with haters present, jealousy, backbiting, alcoholism and all that and more surrounding them….

Or is there such a flick out there and its me who hasn’t seen it?