When I was young my mother used to read me to bed. There was this particular story which was very dear to me. It give me hope and got me through the darkest times. The story of a girl, who lives with her abusive stepmother and step-sisters, How she never lost her hope and always believed in happily ever after. she not only believed in dreams, but she also believed in doing something about her dreams. When Prince Charming didn’t come along .she went over to the palace and got him. The story of a girl named cinderella.
I do not understand, why believing in fairytales is stupid and childish?. I mean, I get that reality hits differently but what is wrong with hoping for something incredible to happen. We never know what the future is holding for us. I love cinderella not because she married Prince Charming and lived happily ever after but because she never stopped hoping for better times. even though she was bullied and body shamed by her stepmother and step-sisters. she never lost her courage.
Most of us portray cinderella as weak rather than a strong girl who got through an abusive household. I know, she needed some help from her fairy godmother but that’s ok to take some help right?. Taking help doesn’t make us weak, giving up makes us weak which she never did. she chose to live with her abusive stepmother because that house held the memories of the love her parents shared, memories of her mother not because she was weak to get away from that house.
If her step-sister wouldn’t bully her then she would have not gone into the forest. she wouldn’t have met the prince. It made me believe that every bad thing happens for a good reason. I do not understand, if something happens we deliberately blame it on the bad things that happened in our lives but what about the good things that were consequences of bad times. Every heartbreak, every fight, every rejection, every bad decision, everything happens for good reason. everything gets better with time.
To the people who think fairy tales are imaginary tales of two people falling in love and living happily ever after, well they are not. Those tales give hope for better times, to think life is meant to live not just survive, they give hope to dream and live our own story.