A Day in the Life / October 29

[morrobay1990]

Title: A Day in the Life / October 29
Author: morrobay1990
Warning:
Genre: canon/1990
Word count: 130
Disclaimer: They are AP's
♥ Jack










Another day down...he’d been saying that to himself a lot lately...

He’d got a lot done, both at the trailer yesterday and at work today. But he was getting frustrated, especially when he looked down the years to come and saw another seven thousand days just like today...just like yesterday.

There were a few good things...like he’d never had to move in with Junior, don’t know how he could have done that, he was pretty good at living alone. And he didn’t really mind working for the next two decades, he liked the ranch all right.

It was the in between time that he didn’t like...the times of nothing and no one, and not much good happening...just...nothing.

He’d got a lot done yesterday and today...maybe he was just tired.

Comments

End of times

[joetheone.livejournal.com]

Working through life and waiting until the end is hard and lonely but we do it and a lot of people just do it and move on. Joe

[gwylliondream.livejournal.com]

So it goes...

[mazaher.livejournal.com]

"Had we never loved so kindly, had we never loved so blindly, never met or never parted, we'd have never been broken-hearted". Old Burns knew his stuff. Question is, as another wise not-so-old man said, hearts are made to be broken. Life is a singular event; better to break one's heart for something worthwhile than for something which isn't, or worse, to try in vain to keep it whole --and unused-- till the end.

[morrobay1990.livejournal.com]

I think Ennis, in his simple way, was able to see it like that...not that he broke it down into components of love and life and broken hearts, but it came down to the same thing in his mind, I think...he was finally made, with the finding of the shirts, to realize what he'd had, what he'd lost, and I believe he is "better off", not exactly the right phrase but he knows he had something good and that, though he misses Jack, what they had together will get him through the lonliness...

oh, brother - how melodramatic can I get!!!

But....it's what I believe.....and I don't think I've plunged the depths of my melodramatic-ness, so you might want to be afraid!

thanks for your great comment

[mazaher.livejournal.com]

Not afraid as much as eager to read more =)

[eandj.livejournal.com]

yes- I think that's the ultimate punishment- nothing to look forward to, a bleak life ahead and no hope this will ever change
but it's also a matter of perspective- can he be content with what he has now and love his memories or will he ever be broken-hearted and despaired. I fear for the later and that's no life at all- poor Ennis.
your little snippets always leave me thinking about it quiet a bit- and that's a compliment
thanks
Paula

[morrobay1990.livejournal.com]

Like all of us, he'll go through periods of sadness, then come out of it, and go back through again.

I think there was hope at the end of the story and the movie, in that he finally knew that he had been loved...too late, but he still has something to cling to and get him through.

I don't like to think of him drinking himself to death, maybe into a good hangover once in a while! But this telling of his days is starting to take shape in my mind, and I see a future for him...alone yes, but still able to find something worth living for.

thanks so much for the compliment, makes me feel quite special....and i needed that today - how did you know!