The dissolution of the la-la land comes with a thud. It might be when we realize... in the words of Taylor Swift "that prince charming is not easy to find and that the bad guy is not wearing a black cape, he is not easy to spot, instead he is really funny, will make you laugh and has perfect hair." But then again classic fairy tales do not deny the existence of heartache and sorrow but they do deny universal defeat.
Age and experience might claim to teach you how to never make the same mistakes twice but they definitely succeed in teaching you how to stop believing in miracles. We lose our appetite to stomach fantasy. The movie ratings are reflective of the same... I see people mock happy endings branding them as unreal even though they'd still read to their kids of the kiss that brought Snow White back to life after she got tricked into eating a poisoned apple...and then I see people who rave and rant about how brutally and bravely honour killings were depicted in LSD and that it was a tragic yet true portrayal of a big social menace, however they do not usually care if reiteration will ever equal resolution. We have become cynical to an extent that we put aside the sprinkling of fairy dust and the sunshine ray and prefer to discuss seemingly sexist statements by the 'Wolf' in The Little Red Riding Hood.
If fairies and goblins and elves and unicorns make me happy, if the topsy-turvy land atop the Faraway Tree going wisha-wisha makes me want to befriend moon-face and have pop-biscuits and if I feel all will be ok when I think of the heroes, I trust we all need fairy tales to keep the magic alive. We need to float and dream. We all deserve at times- to be rescued like Rapunzel, a house made of cake and gingerbread, a pretty pair of glass slippers which fit perfectly, a fairy godmother, a fistful of magic beans and a flying carpet.
P.S: We all deserve Neverland :)
Hey , my thoughts exactly. I think we are becoming too cynical as a breed. we read a blog post , watch a movie , see a dream come true story onfold around us and all we come up with is our list of faults , loopholes , gaps or a prediction of a tragic end!
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Perhaps that’s why the 'fairytales' we prefer to read to our kids are brushed aside as 'unreal' when we see them happening around us. Because every morning when we get up , all we read in the paper as we sip our tea is the latest scam , another bloody carnage and yet some more heartbreak.
But then it’s these people with their constant skepticism that make more people like us spot a peter pan, when we see one. Maybe we all are in our own Neverland – we just don’t know it yet?
A very 'coming of age' post :)
You should start working on your book now ! Looking forward to the next one..
Aaaahhh... you have my imagination running. Funny enough I never com close to anything as fantasy but I still believe in fairytales. Sigh!! may be there I will have my Neverland or may be not but at least the thought makes me happy and my day dreaming interesting :)
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