One of my writing instructors once told me something that really struck me.<p>I was struggling with an ending - something banal about two young people in love and I couldn't figure out why I wasn't getting the ending I wanted. I turned to my teacher and said something along the lines of:
"I don't get it. It keeps reading like a tragedy but the hero is right at the end so I don't understand what's going on."
The guy just looked at me, shook his head and said
"Being right isn't the same as being happy."<p>You can be right all the way to your grave, but you can still live a tragedy.