If you want a happy ending, that depends, of course, on where you stop your story.
About this quote
- What does it mean?
- Happiness depends on where you choose to end your narrative.
- In plain terms
- You decide if a story has a happy ending by picking where it stops.
- What can you take from it?
- Endings are defined by perspective not just events.
Where it applies
Putting it to work
Questions to consider
- Where do you stop your story?
- Who decides a happy ending?
Another view
Some stories naturally lack satisfying conclusions regardless of choice.
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