Monday, March 5, 2012

A new fairy tale of reality


Castles, crowns, pretty dresses, Beads and everything Princessy fascinates little girls and my PP isn’t an exception. First toy that she was fascinated and attracted to was a colorful ball and that gave me sense of relief that she would grow up into one tough girl but as she turned one there was transition from balls to barbies. She’s created her own fairyland and believes the life of princess is perfect because in every story though they have struggles and pain initially but  it always ends with “and they lived happily ever after “.  Fact is all stories are cut short and we never got glimpse of their life after marrying prince of their dreams. 

I realized even as grownups we don’t stop dreaming about living that fairy tale and our life becomes a quest to protect ourselves from wicked witch or jealous step mother.Though in real life there are no ugly witches or step mothers to create obstacles but the vamps come in our life in form of people streaked with envy, revenge, anger, greed or ego.To run away from that we end up in house of hurt, worry, doubt and discouragement, dreaming about that prince charming to help us free from this misery. Real  life is different from fantasy and  nothing can warranty life time of happiness.

We keep chasing for perfect life in the form of having perfect job; staying in perfect house with perfect life partner and  kids with perfect lifestyle to match with. Life isn’t all happy even after that and there still are sad tearful days and we embark on another quest. In reality there’s no such thing as perfect life but its lot chaotic because of  our own emotions and expectations.  All we need to do is find comfort and peace in our imperfect life and rewrite our own fairy tale
Would you like to share your fairy tale with me ?