Maybe the happy ending…

A beautiful verbal collage

I came across this lovely piece of writing.

“Maybe the happy ending 
is you continuing to 
be the soft, loving person that you are 
despite the way the world 
has tried to defeat you. 
Maybe it is a calm nervous system, 
a peacefulness that cannot be threatened. 
Maybe the happy ending 
is you moving on, 
is you giving yourself 
the love you never got 
but always wanted. 
Maybe the happy ending 
is you embracing change, 
is you going 
in the direction of the things 
that grow you and move you 
and magnify your spirit. 
Sometimes we have to remind ourselves 
that we are not responsible 
for other people’s 
poor behaviour towards us 
or their gaslighting 
or their manipulation 
or their unkindness.
That’s on them. 
What’s on you 
is how you choose to respond, 
set boundaries, know your worth 
and not let their actions 
impact the beautiful soul 
that you are. 
You may encounter many defeats 
but you must not be defeated. 
In fact it may be necessary 
to encounter the defeats 
so you can know who you are 
what you can rise from 
how you can still come out of it.”

I liked it so much I wanted to find out who wrote it and this is where it gets…  interesting?

Initially, Bianca Sparacino pops up as the author. So far, so easy.
On closer scrutiny, it turns out Bianca wrote the first half, or more accurately the first half is taken from a longer piece Bianca wrote, which is very good in itself.

“Maybe the happy ending is you continuing to be the soft, loving person that you are despite the way the world has tried to defeat you. Maybe it is a calm nervous system, a peacefulness that cannot be threatened. Maybe the happy ending is you moving on, is you giving yourself the love you never got but always wanted. Maybe the happy ending is you embracing change, is you going in the direction of the things that grow you and move you and magnify your spirit. 
Maybe the happy ending is you finding your way back into your heart, back into your hope. But most of all, maybe the happy ending is simply just you trusting in the fact that you cannot lose what is meant for you, maybe it is simply just you believing that you still have time.” ~ Bianca Sparacino 

So who wrote the rest?
The middle section was written by Helen Marie. 

And the last part was written by Maya Angelou 

“You may encounter many defeats, but you must not be defeated. In fact, it may be necessary to encounter the defeats, so you can know who you are, what you can rise from, how you can still come out of it.”

― Maya Angelou 

As someone who does a spot of wordsmithing myself you might think I would be outraged with all the mixing and matching going on here but I am not. I think it is rather lovely. I think whoever put these pieces of writing together made a lovely new thing. And if that someone was an AI, which I suspect it was, I don’t think that takes away from it at all.

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