Happy Endings

I Thought this story was intriguing yet insightful. The best part is that it was short, keeps your interest and easy to read. After reading this story I thought about what I would take away from this story and to me it's the choices that we make. In our life we are given free choice, no one can take this away from us; not even God. We can choose how we can live our life and what the end looks like.

I will be discussing the first three options: Of course as we look at A, it was the happy ending so somehow they managed to make the "correct decisions" in their lives.

But as we read option B we see how a bad choice ends in tragedy. If we will discuss Mary's choices. She did not have to continue this relationship with John. She knows he is not any good for her nor does he love her. Personally I think she's stuck in a rut because John keeps coming back to her for her body therefore she is not able to make a clean start. Now John's choice is the fact that he won't commit to her nor does he leave her completely because she has become reliable to him.

Option C has little to be desired for. John is a middle aged man who has a good life, he should have just committed to his wife and all would have probably ended well. Of course this did not happen and Mary, not in love with John, is entangled in a love triangle. If she loves James then she should just wait for him to finish his stage or learn to love what he loves, or find someone else to commit to.

I think Margaret is trying to tell us that each decisions makes a difference in our endings. This is something that I have always analyzed, even at a young age. I was always afraid of making the wrong decisions that I would regret later. So in turn sometimes I don't make a decision at all but not making a decision is in deed making one.