In this day and age everything is disposable. Friends, lovers, jobs, relationships......food. It's all about convenience. How quickly you can get something and how quickly you can be done with it. There is something to be said for saying with something through the good and the bad. I like to use my grandparents as an example.
Annie and Miles were married for some 50 odd years. They had certainly seen their fair share of both the good and bad sides of life. They had two children and worked hard their whole lives. They finally retired and moved to Florida where they enjoyed a good life before my grandfather got sick and died....my grandmother followed just about 10 years later. They struggled their whole lives against things life threw at them and yet they weathered the storms. They stayed together and finished their story.
My nieces and nephews (and their kids now) have no idea what it's like to finish the story. The minute things get hard or mucky they walk away. They leave, stop, quit and it's really sad....they will never really know a happily ever after if they don't stay and fight the good fight. It's so easy to quit when things get tough. When you hate your boss or if the partner you've chosen is not the dream you once thought..but how do you know when it's time to stay and fight through it or to walk away? If you always walk away, how do you find a reason to stay?
All endings are happy endings - if you even believe in endings. Do you beleive in endings?
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