Fix You

Lie: Stories with happy ending are the most enjoyable.

I don't know how many people I've met who can't stand anything but a perfect ending. For some reason I've always loved the melancholy of sad stories. I'm not sure I'll be able to explain it because any time I've tried some one's had an answer to my point that makes perfect sense. Like when I say "sad makes things more believable" I get some one saying
     "It's fiction, I go there to escape the real world." Or one time I thought it was poetic to say that the sad things make the happy moments even more beautiful. The friend I was talking to quickly came back with
     "O yeah sad things happening in stories is fine as long as it's just building up to everything working out fine in the end." That had me stumped for awhile, until I came across yet another despairing thing that literally took my breath away with it's beauty. It was a dance I saw performed. The choreographer put it to the song Fix You by Coldplay. It was danced by just one man and one women. The women was going through some kind of problem, what kind of problem, sickness, heartache or what ever else was left up to the imagination, and the man, connected in a way also left up to the imagination, was forced to sit by with no real way to help, nothing to do but watch someone he loves so much pain.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fvGceaFTne8

 
 Wow! I can't count how many time's I've felt that way. Fix is the perfect word. I just wanta fix them, but I've tried everything I know and they are still so out of reach! And then it hit me. This is why I love the sadness in stories, songs and dances. Because it express the way I feel for me. It simplifies it so that I understand were my own hurt is coming from. I wanta shout "Yes! Yes! that's what I've been trying to say God! That's how I feel."

Misery loves company is more then a cliche. It's the truth about human nature. We want to be understood, and loneliness makes everything else hurt that much more. When someone else can take pain so closely related to you're own and weave it into something beautiful it has the ability to give you so much hope. Hope that you can pull you're self out of the ditch. Because for one you're not the first to be there and two, because now it puts the problem in a clearer light and finally, it makes sense and the situation no longer feels so helpless.
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Lie: Stories with happy endings are the most enjoyable
Truth: Stories with "bad" endings are the works of true poets