Is there such a thing as Happily Ever After???

Have you ever planned your life out? like after college im gonna get a high paying, then meet the most beautiful girl the planet has to offer, have this enormous wedding, then go to china for a honeymoon (ok maybe no there. maybe Puerto Rico and im not being bias) then have like 6 kids and live in a ten bedroom house in the mountains. perhaps that was a little over exaggerated but my point is that what we wish for is not even close to reality. there was a short story I came across where it started with one of those fairy tale endings. then were about 4 different versions of the story with the same characters with different situations for them. to me each version reminded me of accurate these stories are of reality. how many people go through similar experiences that the characters had been through. reading this story reminded of a broadway musical called Into The Woods. this musical pretty much had all of the major fairy tales the we love today, such as cinderella, rapunzel, jack and the bean stalk and added the story of a baker as well as several other fairy tales. and each of the musicals characters wanted some specific cinderella wanted to go the ball, rapunzel wanted to get out of her  tower and see the world, jack and his mother were poor so he stole from the giants after he grew the beanstalk, and the baker and his wife just wanted to have child since they were barren. now heres the plot twist, after they got what each of them wanted, none of them were happy, which brings me me to my point. happily ever after is sometimes damaging to our perspective of reality. yes i completely understand that as a child we were taught to imagine and thats all right. but as adults if we continue live in a "fairy tale" it opens us to be used and then discarded,  just like mary opened herself to john and john didnt do the same in Version B in Happy Endings. mary lived in a fairy tale of john will warm up to me, which never happens. we need to have a reality check to help us have a very meaningful and enriching life. by have a proper balance of reality and "fairy tale" to help us live happily.