Friday, June 8, 2012

This is where the story ends

     I always hate it when the movie ends.  I get so involved in the story, when things start to wrap up I don't want it to end.  I want the story to continue, I wonder about the characters.  I envision their "happily ever after". 

     This is why I like to read so much.  I love a story that comes out in a series.....it's like a long, drawn out movie.  I get to follow the story, not just for 2 hours as in a movie.  It typically take me 1 week to read a book.  Even then, I dread the ending.  I don't want the story to ever stop.  In a really good book, the characters become my friends and I don't want to say goodbye.  I care about what happens to them,  I want to stay involved in their lives.

   I wonder what that says about me.  I still think about how it all worked out for Richard Gere and Julia Roberts in Pretty Woman.  Did they stay together?  Did she get her fairy tale?  I think that I really believe in the fairy tale; that it can ( and does) work out despite the odds.  Maybe it doesn't happen as often as we would like, but perhaps this is why we need the distraction of a book or movie--to remind us that there are good stories out there.

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