if the slipper fits

And they lived happily ever after.the most overused words in our childhood story books, ironic isn't it how when your growing up, that happy ending always seems so far away. Those cookie cutter lives like Cinderella and Snow White, that mom used to read to you every night before bed, implanting that idea-that image, that every thing you do, every move you make will end up with a perfect ending, but outside of Cinderella's castle, things don't work that way. There are so many moments in our lives, billions and billions of them, and yet,most of us, if not all seem to have outlined the bad ones with a big highlighter. Our ability to remember is unbelievable, the way you can take a fact, a place, a person and put it into your head forever, now that is something remarkable. Our memories though,are put to use for a number of things, but i think that usually people seem to remember bad things more than good things. When you remember someone from your past who isn't there anymore, whats the very first thing that comes to your mind? not the thousands of good times you had together, the laughs and the smiles, but rather "what went wrong?" what horrible life altering thing could have driven you apart? That is whats wrong. I personally find it much simpler to think about, write about, talk about the bad things in my life, the times when im upset,or times when i was personally mortified, we laugh about embarrassing moments, and joke about how nerdy we were as kids, but how often does something like how nice and generous we were when we were little come up in a conversation between friends. We find humor in our bad moments rather than just talking about good ones instead. And i think personally that everyone finds it easier to remember one really bad thing about someone instead of all the millions of great little things about them. Like how fat he was, or how many rumors she spread, instead of remembering how great he was at making me smile or how funny she was. Its all about those moments where we had downfalls or made a mistake, its usually not the all the good things that happened that make the difference, its the one bad thing that changed everything. What do you think gossip is? People dont care what a good person someone is, they care about who got drunk last weekend or who slept with whats his face. I guess what im trying to say is that the world should just have a major wake up call and become real for a change. Stop listening to all the stupid pointless bad stuff about someone and focus on something good about them. Personally, im sick of writing about how much my life sucks. and it pisses me off that, that is all i can write about. So for now, ill have some good memories and remember those instead.

-Alli