Happy Endings

Many people want what they can't have. I am always hearing people say everything that they do not like about themselves and everything they would change if they had a magic wand. No one is ever perfectly happy with what they are given. In the short story titled, "Happy Endings" the young girl sees Shirley Temple and admires all that she is. She wants to be just like her with the blond curly hair and the white porcelain skin. She wants to look like her, act like her and be just like her. She thinks that if she is just like Shirley Temple her life would be so much better and she would finally attain happiness. This affects her sense of self because she will never be what she thinks is better than what she is. Rather than wanting what she cannot have she should be proud and thankful for how she was made. She will never be happy if she lives her life wanting to be someone else.