Ponderings

I thought I was writing a novel to end the story we'd begun but couldn't end. We laughed so many times about finally getting to write our ending from the same page. Though I miss those times, and those dreams of the future -- because everything was so in-tune. Turns out -- the ending we planned was just not in the cards. Here is to twists and turns in the plot of life, and to having something better in the future just write its way into your life...


On the subject of fairy tales:
They don't have a lot of fancy writing, but they all have the same basic story line. Girl and boy A and boy B. Girl has boy A and gets in trouble, is rescued by boy B and falls in love with him. End of story with happily ever after.
Even today's media feeds into the frenzy that women want to be 'rescued'. Maybe that is why we stay with people who hurt us, stay with people who don't love us as much as they could... I think we all want to be cared about, rescued, and secured for a lifetime of 'happiness' as we were raised to believe would happen.
We, as women, await the most simple romantic gesture in our lives. It doesn't really matter which man it comes from, but we await it. We just want you to send flowers on a whim, or show up just to say hi. It is the little things which have always counted, and in the sense of romantic interests and lives running along fairy tale guidelines, we want the guy who even remotely appears to care. 
Funny how that works. Thanks Disney for screwing up millions of women. We now set our standards too high, and lose the people we care about the most. That is not the way to do our lives.