Don’t fall for the Cinderella delusion, ready to be ‘found’. Take management, and make the magic occur. Right here’s how.
The fairy tales I grew up with had been conventional ones.
They taught me that step-mothers had been all the time scary — as had been woods, wolves and witches. However primarily, they informed me that if I’m affected person and I be taught to attend, then some day my prince will come, using in on a good looking white horse to whisk me away to a palace the place I’ll stay fortunately ever after.
It’s all nonsense, after all.
And as a lady who was about as far-off from a princess as you may get and nonetheless be genetically human, I by no means actually purchased into it. I knew step-mothers who had been form, I cherished woodlands and canines. And witches all the time appeared to have gotten a foul deal, in fiction and in historical past. Particularly when in comparison with all these benign, bearded wizards and alchemists.
The true legacy I received from fairy tales was a love of tales, an understanding of the magic that phrases can weave. I wished to be a author.
My dad and mom, my lecturers, everyone I knew as a toddler informed me this was not possible. Folks like me didn’t do issues like that. I wanted to get my head out of the clouds…
