This article contains spoilers, so if you have not completed watching the series How I Met Your Mother, you may not want to read this further
For those of you who are familiar with the TV series "How I Met Your Mother,"(HIMYM) you were probably throwing the remote at the TV during the ending credits of the finale episode. It's widely recognized as one of the worst TV Series endings of all time. After nine seasons of build to up to how Ted, met Tracy( his children's mother) and an entire season dedicated to Barney and Robin's wedding, the writer's completely dropped the ball. Barney and Robin get divorced and they kill off the mother. It then ends exactly how it started, with Ted standing outside of Robin's apartment with the blue french horn, leading the audience to believe they got back together. Everything the series built up over 9 seasons was destroyed in the final two minutes, or was it?
The ending wasn't what we wanted, in fact not even close, but it's what we needed. To me, the entire point of the show was to instill the message of the chase for perfection. Ted Mosby, the protagonist in the series is in love with Robin Scherbatsky. They dated for a while, and it went extremely well actually, but they both realized that they wanted completely different things in life, so despite their love for each other, they broke up to chase their dreams.
However, throughout the series their feelings for each other keep coming up. It's as if whatever they do, it always comes up to the point of one of them wanting to get back with one another. It never happens, though, both of them know they get in the way of each others life plan.
By the end of the series, Ted's kids point out the story ( the series) wasn't about their mom at all, but about how He is in love with Robin. Ted spent all this time in pursuit of perfection, not realizing that the women he loved the most, he could've had from the beginning. Love isn't a perfect thing, and that's the beautiful thing about. Love is about loving the other person for who they are. So despite differences, you make the sacrifice because they make you happy.
I think creators Carter Bays and Craig Thomas killed off Tracy for that very reason. To show us that perfection doesn't exist. You can spend your whole life of in search of something, but at the end of the day all you can do is what makes you the happiest. Everybody can't get exactly what they want out of life, but everybody can be happy. Search for love, a job, that one song you heard on the radio that one time, but don't know what it's called. Search for whatever you want, but the one thing you cannot search for is perfection.
Only the possimpible is Impossimpible.
