I wonder if Cinderella ever woke up after Prince Charming swept her off her feet to a crazy life.....
Today, a friend of mine asked if she should go to Florida to see a guy she just started dating who is in the military. They recently started dating before he got transferred. Because most of me is a a hopeless romantic and as Rosie O'Donnell once put it"wants to be in love in a movie", I told her to go. I told her she would never know if it was love if she didn't. He could walk away and he could be the one. She would spend the rest of her life wondering what could have been. Everyone else, of course, told her not to go. It was crazy for her to drive for 8 hours to spend 2 days to see some guy that she may never see again.
As I sit here in write this in my tiny house rocking from the wind outside, I still sit thinking of what could become of a fantasy relationship for her. But as I am surrounded by toys, laundry, dishes, and some aches of everyday life, I realize she will return to reality. Love will only make her float so high.
I have begun to wake up from the fantasy dream cloud I prefer to live my life on. It seems like I have received a list from each direction of I have turned of who I am and who I have become. Some of which, I am proud. A lot of which, I am not. A lot of which, I hoped to never become. The scariest part, not knowing how to fix it and scarred to death that I'll change it too late.
Do all fairy tales come to an end? Do we just wake up one day and find ourselves in a reality of our own making? You see, what I didn't say about my friend and her struggle about following her heart to Florida is she has been married 3 times. She has had her heart broken 3 times. And somewhere inside, she still finds the strength to believe in love. So, to all those hopeless romantics, I guess regardless what happens, Cinderella's story never ends.....
"Once in awhile, in the middle of an ordinary life, love gives us a fairy tale."
~Author Unknown
