"With All Your Heart" or Wisdom from The 10th Kingdom

"If you live every day with all your heart, you really can live happily ever after."

This is a line from the TV (nbc) miniseries that was on in 1999/2000ish, entitled "The 10th Kingdom." I'll spare you a review--though it is a good one. But a brief synopsis is that Virginia and her father are chased through a magic mirror portal in Central Park into the land of the Nine Kingdoms which are ruled by the fairy tale princesses, and where all the fairy tales (and some nursery rhymes crept in too) come to life. There are several struggles as this situation plays itself out--Virginia and Tony need to get out and the only person with a working "traveling mirror" is the evil queen, who also happens to be Virginia's mother who walked out on the two a very long time ago...oh yeah, Virginia is like 25.

Anyway, her final analysis of it all comes when she and "Wolf" with whom she fell in love and is having a baby return to Central park is the above quote.

I was always very skeptical of "Happily Ever After." I'm not sure--even now--that it exists. But I think that it is true (I have been noticing lately) that if you live each day with all your heart, at least every day will have a happily ever after ending.

There are rocky times, I'm realizing, and I'm sure you'll hear about; but for the most part, come what may, if you live passionately in whatever you do, life will be quite fulfilling.

That is, at least that's how I--an idealistic college sophomore--see it.