"Stories never really end, Meggie," he had once told her, "even if the books like to pretend they do. Stories always go on. They don't end on the last page, any more than they begin on the first page"(45).
Maybe I'm talking crazy but it seems to me that we rarely begin at the beginning in stories. Often we are introduced to a character by being given a brief description of who they are and the world they live in. Every once in a while a story will begin with the characters birth, but usually we come in partway through their life and rarely do we stick around till they die.
Frequently in books and movies whether or not they end happily or sadly depends a good deal on where you stop in the story. Similar to how we don't usually begin at the beginning, we rarely find ourselves ending at the end. Cinderella and Prince Charming get married, and unless you watch the 2nd or 3rd Cinderella movies (which I wouldn't suggest) that is the end of their story as far as we know. You don't see what happens after 'the end.'
The difference with life is that it's beginning is always at birth and it's ending always with death. Death is the end for us. And gosh that sounds morbid but I'm just trying to point out that if death is always the end, than why do people get so hyped up about happy endings? Doesn't that point to some deeper part within us that knows that death is wrong and longs for things to be set right?
As Christians we know that death isn't the end...that we can die but we can't be destroyed, in a sense. And isn't it quite fascinating how we are all caught up in God's story, all characters in His book of the world? Another interesting thing is that if it is ongoing, and like in that excerpt from Inkspell up there the book may end but the story goes on, than the end of the world isn't the end of the story.
Ok, I'll be done now. 'Scuse me for rambling. Terribly sorry if I confused anyone, just some thoughts.
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