19/10/2025
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The greatest paintings don't need happy endings.
Miryella, a young painter, believed the best way to express feelings is through artโno words, no explanations, just emotion poured on a blank canvas. For weeks, she worked day and night on a painting which would be displayed on her very first art exhibit: a woman standing by a half-opened window. The light casts a soft glow on her figure, creating a shadow that blends with her features perfectly. The train of her dress faintly kissed the floor, her hand rested gently on the sill as if waiting for something. The painting symbolized hope and patience even with the possibility of one's never coming true.
But a few days before the art exhibit, Miryella fell ill, too weak to even hold her paintbrush. She wasn't able to finish her painting. When the day of the exhibit finally arrived, her friend, Ivy, came to visit her. Her condition only seemed to worsen, the room was dark with the only source of light coming from the half-opened window, illuminating the canvas that still sat on the easelโunfinished, untouched. The afternoon light highlighting the dry paint: dull, but surviving colors.
Ivy, despite the painting being unfinished, brought it to the exhibit anyway. With the text underneath the painting saying, "The greatest paintings don't need happy endings." But people still whispered: "Why display something unfinished?" As if it didn't deserve to be there. But only few understood that the greatest paintings don't need finished endings to be beautiful or meaningful.
The painting now represents something deeper than hope; the beauty of something to begin with, even if not finished.
๐๏ธ: Jillian Reyes
๐จ: Angel Abenilla
