Forever After

Other than horror movies, books or shows, the only other type of stories that I truly love are fairy tales.

From the Brothers Grimm and their tales of Goldie Locks or the old school Disney movies of Sleeping Beauty and Snow White, to the more recent ones in the past like Ever After and A Knight’s Tale, right up to the newest ones like The Princess and the Frog and Tangled. 

I love the story, the trials, the tragedy, the triumph; even dare I say it, the romance.  I suppose it’s the hopeless or hapless romantic in me that wishes for the long awaited Prince to swoop in and rescue me from my high tower or the story of life’s woes summed up in a tragedy of lost children who defeat the evil witch bent on stirring them into cookie batter. 

I suppose that is why I live in a foggy world of trudging through daily tasks while my mind wonders and drifts through story lines or life scenarios while I get groceries or drive to work. (Luckily for my fellow drivers on the road I can multitask and am still actually paying attention to the road, even though most every time I have no recollection of the drive to where I was going.) 

Some would say that might make me idealistic and they might be right.   But I believe that I am neither optimistic nor pessimistic, although I can sway between them.  I am more of a conundrum, an enigma, as I truly hope and pray for the best but worry constantly about the worst.  I play out scenarios in my head of what is going on in my life and when they do not fit into the jewel encrusted glass slipper, because of unknown factors and things out of my control, (which is 99% of the time), my mind begins to swirl and dash like the tea cups.   

But I never stop hoping.  I think that because I do want the fairy tale ending that it makes me a dreamer and I believe that having a dream – even an unrealistic one – keeps a person innocent to a certain degree.  Innocent in that they believe that they are a princess or a frog and will find true love in a kiss or be rescued by the hunter from the big bad wolf and that life, no matter how full of monsters or moats can end happily ever after. 

M.L.