In Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs, a Prince breaks the spell cast on Snow White. They fall in love and live happily ever after.
In Cinderella, Prince Charming finds Cinderella after a long search and they fall in love and live happily ever after.
In Sleeping Beauty, Sleeping Beauty is woken up by a kiss from a Prince. They fall in love and live happily ever after.
You see the problem? Time and time again, the story is the same. Girl overcomes hardship and adversity and falls in love with a Prince and they live happily ever after. Time and time again, little girls all over the world are fed such nonsense and they grow up thinking that they will one day similarly meet their Prince and they will fall in love and live happily ever after. Time and time again, girls are taken in by such fantasies, ignoring the bloody blatant signs of falsehoods - the magical pumpkins, the sleeping spells, the fucking dwarfs.
They're fucking fairy tale for heaven's sake! They're NOT TRUE! From the protagonists (who the hell would call herself "Sleeping Beauty"?) to the poison apples (if Evil Stepmother is a witch, do you think she'd make a poison apple whose spell can be broken by a fucking kiss from a Prince? I'd have fucking made it POISONOUS!) to the Happily Ever Afters!
A whole load of nonsense! None of it is true. If ever someone told you "don't worry, some day you will find the one" (which incidentally sounds like a line right out of Cinderella - "some day my Prince will come") or "the perfect one is just around the corner" is fucking out of his/her mind. Has the world suddenly become filled with part-time fortune tellers.
The truth is, the world is a harsh place. Good things sometimes happen to people but they don't ALWAYS happen. Actually, most of the time, they don't happen. Take a look around you the next time you sit at a coffee shop. You will find that NOBODY is totally happy with life. Everyone is at the least dissatisfied with something. Nothing is perfect. Nobody is perfect. Nobody will be perfect. There are no fairy tales in life. Reality Bites. Deal with it.
And mothers who don't advise their children accordingly are doing them a great disservice.
People should be content with what they have. This does not mean that they don't work to better what they have, or lose hope for good things to come. But precisely that they should WORK towards betterment and keep hope as just that - hope, not expectation. It means that to always appreciate and enjoy the joys that one currently has. And therein appreciate and enjoy life for what it is. Not yearn for what it should be.
In a way, life is lot like reading a book. The reward is not in knowing the ending but in the slow, sometimes tedious process of reading itself. Through the ups and downs in the plot, over which you, the reader, has no control. Sometimes it will end in Happily Ever After. Sometimes it will end in a tragedy. But it will always be a good book if you enjoy the reading.
p.s - No, my rant has nothing to do with me. It is rant against self-absorbed, immature and deluded persons that I've recently had the displeasure of having to encounter.
