happily ever after: complete bollocks?

.....and they all lived happily ever after. that's how every fairytale which involves a damsel in distress and a hot, sexy, yummylicious prince charming ends. damsel will on purpose or accidentally land herself in a life or death scenario, prince charming will then rescue her from the mouth of Death on his noble steed. they will ride off into the sunset on his stallion, knowing very well that life is gonna be oh-so-perfect and oh-so-splendid for them. she with him forever, he with her forever. nothing will ever separate the conjoined-at-the-heart couple. what about problems, fights, arguments, divorce? oh no dear, there wouldn't be such a thing. remember the happily ever after ending? yes, such a blissful life the damsel-turned princess and prince charming has. starting to feel envious aren't you?

even i feel envious of this couple. to live in such perfection is a blessing. flawlessly beautiful. but hey, we ain't living in far far away land. we are stuck in this effing sadistic, stark, evil place called reality. in reality every negativity exists. you name it, we got it. i'm not going to list them because you know them by heart already. to say that life has always been a big, plush bed of roses is a blasphemy to life. everyone is doomed to face trials and tribulations, big or small. so tell me how are we supposed to get a happily ever after?

so since we can't get our happily ever after, why in the first place did this phrase even exist? to make us wallow in jealousy that we just can't have a happy ending? to amplify the contrast between the facets of illusion and reality? or to simply give us hope that life can be how you want it to be? hope. a four-letter word which brings light into life when it's dark. without this word we'd have plunge deep into the abyss of doom and never get out of it.

soooo, i guess fairytales exist for a sole reason: to be our beacon of hope in shitty times. we may not have a loverly ending like cinderella, snow white or sleeping beauty did, but for me it would suffice to have a few happy moments with him than nothing at all. :)