Have you ever noticed how almost every fairytale ends the same way?

“And they lived happily ever after.”

It’s such a gentle sentence. So harmless. So comforting. Four words that close the book, dim the lights, and send a child to sleep believing the world is stitched together by destiny.

But today, I want to talk about those endings.

Not the castles.

Not the glass slippers.

Not the dragons.

The endings.

Because fairytales didn’t just entertain us.

They trained us — in how to expect life to conclude.

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