Books With Pink Covers

You know it has just struck me that we have been duped!
All our lives, fairytales, movies, love songs and all the happily ever after nonsense has taught us to believe that situations always have happy endings and that you always get the conclusion you hoped for, despite the odds, despite adversity, despite all circumstances!!!
It's only when you get old enough to be jaded and enjoy the wittiness of being a cynical non-believer that you realize things only ever fall into place in that particular dream like fashion in...well...in dreams, dreams, fairytales and books with pink covers.
Real life is not so accomodating as this, in the real world we are often too fat, too stupid to realize, caught in the wrong situation, confused by our own feelings or downright scared to make things happen that way...
The most frustrating thing of all is that despite all evidence to the contrary, i have been so throughly brainwashed by the happily ever after, love at first sight, oppose an empire for you, king of men, princess of the sea type crap that I still find myself waiting for that one mad, passionate, unreasonable, unquestioning, unstoppable love to happen to me.
Now here's what I wonder, two things really, does our mad, passion impulse control have a shelf life? I mean after a certain age are we incapable of ever going to that magical neverland of love and abandon? Seems a little that way sometimes, so it that us growing up and getting smarter or growing up and growing deader?
The second thing, do we have a quota for love? I mean how much, how many times are you allowed to find the all consuming flame? Perhaps we each have only one go, what happens then if things fall apat is everything else just second best?
That's what really scares me, who would want to live the rest of thier lives settled on second best?

...To Every Story

You've all heard them say that there are two sides to every story right? So here's the rub when both sides are so blatantly contradictory which do you believe...in fact take for instence a situation which is being described to you in some detail the situation and the detail presented to you from both sides is in fact exactly the same, the only difference is each narrator has swapped roles and dialogues in their own versions and have ended up playing the protagonist???
Something is amiss no?
So is it a case of excersing good judgement and weighing character and all that or does one simply believe the first version one is told on the grounds that further pondering would simply be a waste of time? Hmmmm....you could always just opt for the most likely version but then how would you know for sure that you were right?
You could of course assume that both stories are trying to grab the glory and try and disect the truth somewhere in between...or then you could just get a life and not spend hours trying to figure out an intricate web of fantasy and deception and then writing blogs about spending time trying to figure out an intricate web of fantasy and deception.
The fact remains that no one persons account is ever totally truthful be that consciously or unconciously people no matter how honest always color incidents with tones of their own perception....I guess this is why hearsay is inadmissable in a court of law. But what is it in our making that makes us so unable to recreate any event without embellishments or our own slant to things? Are we so fundamentally opinion ridden that we cannot escape it?
Oh well, I guess that's why they say there are two sides to every story and sometimes many more!