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Everything started as once upon a time!

A happiness that lasts forever

By Farlaj BartonPublished 3 years ago 2 min read
Everything started as once upon a time!
Photo by Anastasia Sklyar on Unsplash

How easily your tongue spoke the distance between my presence and my absence. However, the real story was after that…

We don't deserve to live like this. You put all your lies on us by saying hope. Everyone's eyes were on us, we had to smile.

Fairy tales should always end happily, right? Everyone believed, but you couldn't make us believe alone.

Your lie was a line

You have repeatedly said, “This only happens in fairy tales”.

We alone had to endure this lie.

You were bad.

A part of you couldn't hide itself, you reflected all those perverted thoughts inside you. Dragons spewing fire from their mouths, witches, wizards, all kinds of creatures that we can't think of. You couldn't get enough of it, you didn't get enough of an apple, you didn't get into your blood, nor did you poison everything with a needle.

It was as if you wanted to teach.

As if every happy ending in life has to come at a heavy price, you have also haunted us with the bad ones that will delay all those happy endings.

It was as if we were the one who did not give up on any difficulties, did not bleed no matter how much it hurt, and lived as if we would never die. We had to endure to have a happy ending to the tale. The obvious line was repeated in our heads every time.

It was like, "What you say only happens in fairy tales".

At every opportunity, you have slammed the fact that we created ourselves in our face as if it were ours.

However, you know, it didn't happen even in the fairy tales you mentioned, all that happened was a fiction in your mind. You set up a lot of expectations and then you kept saying that all those expectations would never happen in real life.

Everyone thought we were the reason, they kept envious of us, even hated us most of the time. It wasn't us, but we said that we wanted it, but nobody listened.

You left us saying that they lived happily ever after.

Nobody knew what happened after the last thing you said.

Even happiness was not strong enough to last forever. Like everything else, they had to run out. For those of us who were forced to cling to a lie, you left nowhere to run. The shadows hovered after us, you wasted us without mercy so that nothing could happen to the fairy tales.

We were part of a game for you, we couldn't be anything else, no matter how hard we tried. We had to laugh while crying, we had to keep going no matter how much trouble we got into, we were given tasks and there was no option to fail.

We defeated the bad guys many times, saved the princess, brought peace and happiness to the world.

Then we lived happily ever after.

Don't do it, for God's sake!

How would we carry the concept of happiness in our title when we have been living the same vicious circle for centuries?

So know.

There is no happiness that lasts forever, O storytellers.

It doesn't even happen in the fairy tales you call it, wake up now.

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Farlaj Barton

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