Hi everyone! I hope you’re all well. Today is Wednesday, so it’s time for the next post in the Wednesday Weekly Blogging Challenge hosted by Long and Short Reviews. If you want to participate in the challenge, you can find the list of Weekly topics here. If you’d like to read what others had to say about today’s topic, you can do that here.
A Book Trope I Wish Happened IRL More Often
Talk to the Animals
One trope I wish happened in real life is the one often found in children’s books, where the protagonist develops the ability to talk to animals. I don’t know about you, but I would love that ability. I love animals, and I have spent many a night staring into the eyes of my gorgeous dogs, wondering what they were thinking or might say to me if they had the chance. Although, it would’ve probably been something like, ‘Stop staring into my eyes, you weirdo!’
Time Travel
I often find myself wishing that I had a time machine. I wish I could go back and live a day at the start, a day in the middle and one at the end of every decade starting from the dawn of time itself. That way, I could have an in-depth overview of how things in society and the world are changing. In the fast-paced society in which we live today, it can be hard to notice things changing and evolving because we’re being swept along in the day’s debris. It would help us to appreciate life a little more, I think.
Happy Endings
Ah! Don’t we all wish this trope was real? Don’t we all want to have our own happy endings? I love fairy tales. Growing up, they made adulthood seem like a pretty great thing. All the ones I read suggested that after a little bit of hardship, i.e. being made to cook and clean by your evil stepmother like poor Cinderella, being abandoned in the black forest by your father like poor Hansel and Gretel, or being chased by a giant down a beanstalk ala Jack and the Beanstalk, we all find that wonderous thing called happiness.
Whether it be love, being made into “a real boy” or finding sudden wealth after a rich old cannibalistic witch gets what is coming to her, we are expected to believe in an adulthood of endless joy. Well, they all lied, didn’t they? I don’t know about you, but my expectations were severely warped.
I still love a good fairy tale and think it would be nice if the happy endings they promised us truly happened.
Anyhoo, that’s enough out of me for now. I’m looking forward to reading about which tropes you wish happened in real life.
As always, thanks for reading my words!
Until next time,
George
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Categories: life, Wednesday Weekly Blogging Challenge
GEORGE L THOMAS 
Talking to animals is a fun one!
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I agree. I’d love to know what they think of us. Though I’d wager, not much.
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This was a fun post to read, and I wish that I could talk to animals too! Also, I agree everyone wants a happy ending, but life is filled with ups and downs.
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Thank you, Karalee!
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Happy endings, please!
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Your first one made me giggle – I have spent a lot of time chatting to my cats and sincerely waiting for a response. Usually it’s a yawn. But I would also love that ability – I would love to hear about the world from an animal’s point of view, I think I could learn something from that!
I am fascinated by history, but every time I think about actually going back in time I’m convinced I’d last about five minutes before a sabre toothed tiger ate me, I got shot through the neck with an errant arrow, got the plague or was felled by an infection in a time before antibiotics. I wouldn’t even put it past myself to annoy someone enough to throw me in the Tower of London or behead me! All in all, despite my curiosity, I feel like it wouldn’t be a great idea.
I have always been suspicious of happy endings. I figure they’re just leaving out all the crap that comes later, you know? Like if it ends with the prince marrying cinderella I assume they are up for a lifetime of fighting over who left the window open, why he can’t put his socks in the hamper, which part of the toothpaste tube should be squeezed and what on earth to eat for dinner. I guess I feel like happy endings are not so much about perfection as learning to find happiness in the imperfection, if that makes sense. But I do like the idea of going through hardship leading to a better time ahead, and I do wish that kind of karmic repayment was standard, because I’m pretty sure I’d be close to earning a new car or a swimming pool at this point!
I enjoyed your post very much – lots to think about! Thanks!
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🤣 I love your response about time travel. I hadn’t thought about all of the ‘survival’ stuff. Of course, infections, beheadings… everything was deadly back then… although beheadings are still quite deadly, I think. This made me chuckle.
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You should always keep at least one chronically ill person with anxiety kicking around – we’re great for pointing out all the mortal dangers in any situation! Lol
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I know! I am one! 🤣 Great minds think alike!
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I think I always knew that real life does not guarantee happy endings, maybe because some of the books I read didn’t either, but isn’t it hard to accept the sad ones? Just the same!
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Yes, Priscilla, completely. 🙂
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As others say, what a fun post! I’m reminded of a cartoon I once saw where a child mad scientist’s dog keeps pointing to a piece of equipment in his lab. The scientist, really wanting to know what’s up, invents a collar to allow the dog to speak. And when he talks to the dog, the dog just says “the thing! the thing! I found the thing!” The movie “Up” has my other favorite “dog talks via collar” – Squirrel!
At some point I learned the acronyms HEA (Happily Ever After) and HFN (Happy For Now). I’m always glad for HFN.
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Yes, I love the dog in “Up”. Happy for now is as much as any of us can really hope for I think.
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