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Wednesday, March 7, 2012

Once Upon A Time


The timeline beginning with Once Upon A Time and ending with Happily Ever After is a story filled with: wishes and regrets; love and hate; and strength and weaknesses.

The new Once Upon A Time TV series has really reflected upon how a fairy tale can be viewed in
the real world if the characters where transport here. In the episodes, life isn't filled with much contentment, at all, for the characters. They are angry, lonely, bitter, scared, or pretending that life is well. Yet, in their fairy tale lives, it is still mirrored, a reflection, of their real life.

Turning your life into a fairy tale can be done following one of the two paths: The Bad or The Good.

The Bad Path is long and treacherous...
Life Filled With...
Manipulation where bridges are burned to the point you have no one to turn to.
Lies which is a avalanche of being buried alive with a stamp of "Distrust" to every one you meet.
Cheating which has small, trinkets of being happy, that never stay and thus become addicting.
Stealing which has a boomerang effect where eventually things are being stolen from you, and if they aren't stolen, you're paranoid that they will be.

The Good Path is long and hurtful...
Life Filled With...
Being the giver which opens you up to being stepped on and used.
Doing the right thing which is the discipline and hard road of life..with "no fun" as they say; given the stigma of "you're too good for us" projected attitude upon you.
Being protected where you don't experience any part of life and remain stagnant.
Truth which can isolate you because no one really wants to know, or hear, the truth about themselves.

Both paths to your heart's desire doesn't sound too appealing, does it? Yet they both ARE fairy tale lives.

We tend to forget the hardship that happens in a fairy tale, the path taken from Once Upon A Time to Happily Ever After. The Beast was abusive; Cinderella was a slave; Snow White and Red Riding Hood were hunted to be murdered; Little Mermaid and the Swan Princess committed suicide; Sleeping Beauty and Rapunzel where kept in seclusion; Hansel and Gretel, as well as Goldilocks, were thieves; and the Frog Prince was emotionally abused.

Fairy Tales, as with any fiction story, are a reflection of "real" life. The only difference between the real and the unreal is that the unreal has a savior. Following the Bad Path usually ends with someone saving you. Following the Good Path usually ends with you saving yourself. Thus, in both cases, a fairy tale has a hero.

For your life to end, or be lived, as a Fairy Tale, you must save yourself, or receive that miracle of someone saving you. You must have in your life...

A Hero.



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