Fairytales

A dream is a wish your heart makes
When you're fast asleep
In dreams you lose your heartaches
Whatever you wish for, you keep

Have faith in your dreams and someday
Your rainbow will come smiling through
No matter how your heart is grieving
If you keep on believing
The dream that you wish will come true...

Favourite song from my all time favourite Disney fairytale. Beautiful cinder girl meets with charming prince who sweeps her off head over feet and whisks her off into many wonderful tomorrows. Fairytales...aren't they lovely? Picture perfect. Made in Heaven on earth. Where everything always works out for the better. But for all we know, Cinderella could have been leading a terrible post happily ever after life. She could have encountered problems with her in laws, unable to produce an heir and her hubbie prince has an affair with her fat stepsis who ends up getting pregnant instead! No bed of roses for poor Cindy then huh?

I'm not saying that miracles don't happen, they do but shit happens too. Guess this is what maintains the cosmic balance. The balance of good and bad in the universe. For every win, someone must fail. For every miracle, a tragedy entails. Keeps things fair between the angels and devils. Life's not fair. Sometimes we don't get what we want, no matter how much we sulk over it. Guess we just have to count our blessings and keep track of what's good, pacify ourselves with the positives to make the journey of our lives easier to swallow and digest.

Maybe we never really grow up. Maybe there will always be a hidden child inside of us that emerges once in a while for a breather. When we defy our parents, take what does not belong to us, when we keep that extra change, lie to our loved ones, when we betray our friend, throw our tantrums, when we bend the rules, speak before we think, when we hope not matter how hopeless...

Because kids don't know any better and aren't we like one when we do bad, silly, stupid things even when we know we shouldn't?