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Sorry To Be The One To Tell You This

Jerry Pompilio
3 min readDec 16, 2021

In Life, There are no “Happy Ending’s”

Be happy for this moment. This moment is your life.

Omar Khayyam

You’re watching your favorite movie, finishing reading that story you love. The hero saves the day. All is well, and everyone goes on to live happily ever after.

Wait, it doesn’t stop there. Does it?

It’s not the end of the story.

I’m a movie lover. You know the feeling you get at the end of the movie. The hero saves the day then the characters go off and live happily ever after.

Could it be me, but I can’t help thinking about what happens after the end.

I don’t know about you. In my life, I have not experienced a happy ending. Quite the opposite. Not to be morbid. This has led me to see the time between the beginning and the end. Is where happiness exists.

Life is not so much about beginnings and endings as it is about going on and on and on. It is about muddling through the middle.

Anna Quindlen

The time between the beginning and the end

This is not to dwell on the negative, quite the opposite.

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Jerry Pompilio
Jerry Pompilio

Written by Jerry Pompilio

Jerry Pompilio, Small business survivor. With over 50 years in the service business. At this stage, it’s time to pay it back. To help others survive it too.

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Comes a time in life when it all starts to make sense. There’s much happiness we get from life. The reason unhappiness exists is to make us aware of happiness.

This is the foundation of everything that is part of being a human. Thank you for your wise words.

Really enjoyed this read! You are right that it is in the middle where happiness is.

Thanks for writing 😁