Sunday, August 22, 2010

Real life isn't a Fairy tale



LIfe Vs Fairy tale- A short rant on my least favorite Expression

What people inevitably mean by this statement is, “Life is tough. Things won’t always go your way. It’s not all rainbows and cupcakes.”

I wonder, have these people ever listened to a fairy tale?  The fairy tales I know don’t have much to do with rainbows or cupcakes. More often they deal with murderous stepmothers and deadly curses. The world of fairy tales is a world where your answer to a single riddle might mean life or death. It is a world where you will need all your wisdom, courage, and compassion to complete your task and to remain human. It is a world where the stakes are high: great good and great destruction are both possible. It is very much like the real world.


Life, like a fairy tale, is full of beautiful and terrible things. Keep your eyes open; keep your heart open. Don’t be afraid. And please, please, don’t ever use the expression, “Real life is no fairy tale.”

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