Fostering the hope that there's hope

I've been watching season 4 of Once Upon A Time. In the last two episodes, Operation Mongoose, part 1 and 2, the characters lives have been all switched around, with good guys being the unlucky losers now, and the bad guys getting to be the heroes with happy endings. Only Henry has been unaffected and he tries to convince his adopted mother that her life should really be different than it is. Sad how convinced she is that her life cannot get better. She tells Henry, "I'm not the kind of person that gets happy endings. I'll never have true love .... you gave me the worst thing you can give anyone. Hope." ....



I know the feeling.