once upon a time

fighting witches, dragons and monsters...  

When I was a kid mum used to read me stories till I fall asleep, How much I loved to listen of far, far away lands and castles. and then dragged  to a world where I would create my own story, it was my dream world, I could be whoever I wanted to be!! how warm and safe.... I felt, invincible!! 
It was all perfect ..and ended up always with  a happy ever after...

I grew up and I stopped believing in fairy tales and especially in happily ever afters .

Trough the looking glass...

Did you ever look closely to a fairy tale? Is it always easy to reach the last page and read happily ever after?

Lets take in consideration sleeping beauty....she was an 18 year old young woman and had it all ....rich, beautiful and had all every living person could ever imagine...but she was curious she touched the needle of a wooving machine and falled in a deep sleep for 100 years! The prince had to go trough thorns and fight the witch, to achieve his and hers happy ending. This is a bit of a selfish story really....the princes had it her way and she didn't do big deals, she was priviladged ....all froze for 100 years she never aged a day since she pierced  her finger tip (she even didn't have time to put her Q10 cream before going to bed!!....and still looked amazing!!!!) and at the end of the day she ended up with a young prince! way to young!! at least a 100 years!!.....(lucky bitch huh!!!  :P ).

Little red riding hood !! She  had a tough one!!! she just disobeyed her mum for a few minutes and it all ended in disaster, the bad wolf ate grandma and her too!! Thanks god there was a hunter passing by ...(she wouldn't be this lucky now a days with all these (EU) laws against hunting.....)

One that never had it her way was the poor little mermaid!! The young princes of the deep ocean ..felt in love with a man that was not of her kind not of her world!! he was brought up and lived in a different environment!! (Its like a girl meeting a rock star we would say these days!!) She gave up the most precious thing she possessed her voice!! She gave it to the evil Medusa!! In exchange of feet!. She even saved her loved one from drowning! In the end the prince choose the evil Medusa..... and the poor mermaid melted away becoming foam in the ocean.....sad, sad ending....Life can be sad yes...but there is a moral here, the mermaid sacrificed all!, she did what was against her nature and battled against all odds!! She was a true life pioneer, she never gave up! even if in the end she didn't have it her way, she had no regrets that she never gave life a shot!... 

Others ..change....like snow white. Snow white, she was an "innocent" creature that had to escape from her evil stepmother to save her life! She met seven new friends and a prince in the mean time, got married to the handsome prince in the end too!. She played the role of the victim, and later engaged the role of the villain!! she let hatred grow deep inside her and gave her stepmother a harsh payback!  On her wedding day snow white, made her stepmother wear red hot iron shoes! and made her dance till she dropped dead!! Is the good you ask? No I don't think so but we can take the moral out of this too ...that no matter how bad the circumstances may look we don't have to alter who we really are! We don't have to turn to a selfish, self-centred person!. No matter what the other person did to us, a bad action wont turn an other bad action right!!

Life can be harsh my dear, But you know what? life is beautiful there is always something happening! like we are writing our own fairytale! In fairy tales many possessed mystical weapons and powers and made there life journey more easy, we too have special powers like them...perhaps less "loud", we too meet new characters that give colour to our lives!. Some make us stronger while others makes us sad...but if we look closely from the looking glass we will find positiveness in things that we might have thought where just "normal" or not worth  our attention... 

I am a believer in fairy tales! I am writing my own now! as I meet new characters every day! A powerful wizard and a beautiful princes....... I am using mystical powers like "flying words" they travel from one side to the world to an other in seconds! Impressive huh? ^^

Now tell me... have I done the right ting? where fairy tales just fictional stories? 
if you thought they were just fictional think again!!

Go on ...don't fear .....grab your wooden sword and fight that dragon....as much big and monstrous it may look, it must have a weak point ....we just have to find it .....