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Life is turbulent, and there are no guarantees of a happy ending. Still, imagine if all stories reflected reality...
This week's Action/Adventure Newsletter is all about hope and happiness.
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It’s said that life has its ups and downs. That we all hit a rough patch every now and then. That light will always overcome darkness. That good will always defeat evil. We believe those sayings so much that many a story, many a novel, and many a movie are based upon them. You won’t get a story where there are no obstacles to overcome at one point or another. Where our characters are happy throughout or, at the very least, at peace. I guess that it wouldn’t be much of an action/adventure story without action or adventure, but would we read such a story in any genre, if it were available?
Even stories for young children tend to have some kind of problem to solve. Where’s Timmy’s ball? He’s lost it. Is it here? Is it there? What about over there? Ah, he’s found it, and now Timmy’s happy! Don’t give up, kids. Persevere!
We expect character growth, and the idea tends to be that peaceful, happy times do not deliver this, or not sufficiently. There are sayings about this, too. What doesn’t kill you makes you stronger. We don’t build courage by being happy every day. You can’t recognise good if you haven’t experienced the bad. So, we send our characters on long, turbulent journeys that challenge them until they want to give up, give in... but they can’t. They have a purpose. And, in the end, they will overcome. That’s when, if we’re nice to them, we give them the reward of a glimpse of happiness.
You know, sometimes I have wanted to watch a movie or TV series in which nothing bad happens. I’ve certainly wanted for my life to be one of happiness and peace. I said above that we believe the sayings about overcoming darkness and good defeating evil, but maybe we don’t... not really. Maybe it’s more that we need to believe it in order to keep on going.
It’s certainly not true that hard work always pays off. Many people work hard every day yet are barely able to keep a roof over their heads and food on the table. More and more need the assistance of food banks despite all their efforts. And it’s not true that there’s a special person out there for each and every one of us, or if there is, it’s a rather cruel set-up, as many never have their romantic happily-ever-after.
I know a lady whose life reads like a story. Bad childhood, ended up in an orphanage, worked as a maid as soon as she could. Met a man, married, had children, they got a farm, and he ran off with his secretary. The lady was left running the farm and raising five children. She’s done a remarkable job. All five children have become wonderful adults. By all accounts she deserves a happy ending. She deserves to meet a man who will recognise how amazing she is, and who finally gives her the love she should have received years ago. She’s now a pensioner, however, and it hasn’t happened. It may never happen. That’s reality.
Those sayings and the stories we grow up with and love are, for the most part, lies. “Of course,” you might say. “It’s fiction!” Sure. But you know what I mean. Bad often wins over good. Having a terrible time of it doesn’t automatically mean that there are happy times ahead. I know that I am not exactly being Miss Inspirational here – sorry – but that’s the truth.
Imagine, though, if the stories we tell reflect the truth... If Voldemort defeated Harry Potter. If Sauron became the leader of all Middle-earth. Our heroes and heroines would face challenge after challenge and break down rather than rise up and succeed. And then they’d get rejected by the love of their lives. We’d be even more unlikely to read those stories and watch those movies than those without any obstacles whatsoever.
I guess we need the lies. Maybe, sometimes, they aren’t lies at all – good things do happen. Bad does, on occasion, get defeated. Some people do have a happily-ever-after. But even if it doesn’t happen like that, if the downs are deep and unpleasant and the ups aren’t what we hope for, and we never get to experience plain sailing, we need hope. Our own stories aren’t over yet. It’s impossible to tell what’s to come and past experience might not reflect the future.
So, lie to me. Write the best possible ending and you never know... it may come true.
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