Legendary Episode.
Being in a couple is hard, and committing, making sacrifices - it’s hard; but if it’s the right person, then it’s easy. Looking at that girl and knowing she’s all you really want out of life, that should be easiest thing in the world; and if it’s not like that, then she’s not the one.
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| — | Marshall Eriksen, How I Met Your Mother |
Here’s the thing about mistakes, sometimes even when you know somethings a mistake, you gotta make it anyway.
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Yes it is. Look, you don’t want to tell me what’s wrong, fine. I don’t need to know. But you can never stop me from trying to cheer you up. It’s a fact of life. You’re just gonna have to deal with it.
TED MOSBY, How I Met Your Mother
For a Deeper How I Met Your Mother
However your life goes, that’s the story of how you ended up where you are, and therefore, every turn your story took, whether sad or happy at the time, is part of how you achieved whatever joy you have.
It’s that sad things go with happy things, not because it’s literally cause and effect, but because when you gut it out through divorce or death or loss, you do so in the belief that you will also get to run through the streets hugging everyone. It operates on a kind of faith in the fundamental goodness of life: that your love will be returned; that your perseverance will pay off; that the family you choose — your friends — can be just as loving and loyal as the family you were given.
How I Met your Mother once thought me. Or whatever.
It was like something from an old movie, where the sailor sees the girl across the crowded dance floor, turns to his buddy and says, “See that girl? I’m gonna marry her someday.”
Ted Mosby & Barney Stinson, HIMYM 1x01 Pilot
This is life.
Dear Happiness,
Look, the future is scary.
But you can’t run back to the past,
just because it’s familiar.
Yes it’s tempting, but it’s a mistake.
