I can’t say for certain when it first happened. I guess it
happens to every girl. At some point, while we’re growing up, somehow we get it
into our heads that fairy tales can come true. We spend our childhood watching
Disney movies with pretty princesses and perfect men who end up living happily
ever after and from that very first happy ending we want nothing more than for
that ending to come true for us.
My parents got divorced when I was quite young and I was
lucky enough to end up with four amazing parents as opposed to just two, but it
wasn’t the fairy tale story I had read so much about and my parents’ lives read
nothing like a Disney movie. I guess no one’s really does. But it got me
thinking as to where I got this fantasy and why I have based so many on my life’s
decisions on a fantasy which, as far as my limited experience goes, may be
completely unfounded. Where did I get this urge to believe in something that
only seems to exist in books and movies?
And that’s the one flaw with movies and books; they’re
selling you a big, perfect moment that only comes once in a lifetime, when
actually life is made up of a sequence of little moments, which all have the
potential to be whatever you want them to be. So maybe I’m not a princess, and
maybe there is no Prince Charming out there waiting to swoop in and save me
from all my problems. Maybe, just maybe, there is a guy out there who can share
in all of my little moments and make each one of them worth far more than any
make believe prince ever could.
Maybe somewhere in this world there is someone as crazy and as
adventurous as I am and if I am lucky then one day when I am looking back on my
life I will see a series of fantastically beautiful, little moments and I will
know that for once Walt Disney got it wrong and that actually the fairy tale
ending is not an ending at all but rather the beginning of something amazing.
The nicest thing about this theory is that I can so easily
believe it. I have seen other people experience such wondrous, little moments
and I know without a doubt that these were more real, and loving, and true than
any film could ever hope to capture.
And it is with this theory in mind that I must congratulate
two of my closest friends on their recent engagement. In them I have witnessed
such love and honesty and true kindness not only towards each other but towards
everything else in their lives. I have seen so many of their little moments and
I know with every fiber of my being that they have found the ultimate fairy
tale. In each other they have found a love that will last forever. And I could
not be happier for them.
