Please Don't Tell Me How The Story Ends

This could be our last good night together
We may never pass this way again
Just let me enjoy 'till it's over or forever
Please don't tell me how the story ends.

Though I am ashamed to admit, I sometimes watch the soap opera General Hospital. Soap operas really know how to reel you in by slow moving plots and cliff hangers with each episode. Soaps have been on for many years and characters come and go. You never really know how the story will end.

However, with sitcoms today, the story is very predictable. A situation occurs, there is a plot and a climax, then the show ends either with the problem solved or with comic relief. Either way, you pretty much know how the story will end.

Life is more like a soap opera than a sitcom. Characters come in and out of our lives every day. Some stay and some just pass through. Our issues and problems take more than 30 minutes to solve, and each day, month, and year are a cliff hanger. We don't know how our story will end.

"I just want to live happily ever after, every now and then." Jimmy Buffett

Trials and tribulation build character. Without the bad in our lives, we would not fully appreciate the good. We all have dreams. Some of them will come true and some wont, but we must keep believing. If my life was predictable, it would be boring. For me, each day is an adventure that ends with a cliff hanger. I don't want to know how my story ends.

Never's just the echo of forever
Lonesome as the love that might have been
Just let me go on loving and believing 'till it's over
Please don't tell me how the story end.

Glad that my life is not filmed before a live studio audience is ... on this cowboys mind.



(Please Don't Tell Me How The Story Ends: Ronnie Milsap)