Sarah's Monologue

SARAH: I’ve said it once, and I’ll say it again: I don’t believe in happy endings. Tell me why people come into your life only to vanish or slip away? What good is that? What is the purpose of loving someone who isn’t going to stay with you?
         Now love, huh, there you go–– love is “forever,” “eternal,” “unchanging”… Well, at least that’s how they preach about it in church: “Love is never wasted,” “we love because He first loved us.” Yes, yes, I understand that! I don’t understand why God, in all His infinite mercy, places angels in your life that seem to fix every doubt and fear, nightmare or heartbreak; they are perfect. Then you petition these divine beings, you dare to love them and offer them your temporal, earthly heart. However, if you aren’t careful in your every thought, word, action breath, God takes them away… and then your love is wasted. Do you understand? Your love is wasted –– on something that was never meant to be yours in the first place.
         Then there are those moments of clarity---and you know what I’m talking about here--- moments were you wake up one ordinary day and discover that the one person you really love has been right in front of you the whole time. And, to be quite honest, that person, that mortal you have unconsciously given your heart to, can ultimately outshine the luminance offered by any angel.
         …The only missing piece of the puzzle is this: how do you hold on to something mortal if even the highest degree of celestial love has slipped through your fingers?