Everything Between "Once upon a Time and Happily Ever After"...
Leaving Neverland...
Every person has their own idea of what they think their life should be and what is most important to them. There are movies made and books and songs written by people who have a knack for putting what they want and need into words and making those words sound perfect to the ear and look perfect to the eye. They can so skillfully capture that feeling of having your breath taken away...but those songs and books and movies smartly focus on "the beginning" the first few brief moments when nothing in the world matters but the person you are loosing oxygen over. In the beginning when all you see and know for sure is what that person wants you to see and know. I must have watched a million movies in my lifetime...and every one of them had their part in creating this impossible world in my mind, a world that know real man or relationship could ever measure up to. A world where there is no room for mistakes or insensitive words or actions . Such a fairytale existence my choice of entertainment has left me to crave. I will admit willingly and openly I have been sooo very foolish and naive. Fantasy sells, who would rent a movie with a plot that focuses entirely on an average persons true life...all of the dirty diapers and the housework and the one sided conversations and cleaning the toilet and vaccuming and nights without sex and days without money and the resentments and the forgiving and forgetting, keys locked in trucks and a million other small and large things that just make up a normal life...who wants to pay money to watch your own simple little life in a movie or read it in a book? Not a soul I know. People want to see what they don't see everyday and feel what they don't feel everyday and maybe when your staring at the screen or reading those pages or singing along in your car...maybe all of those emotions and feelings are just far to enormous to have to deal with on a regular basis...a person can not live without air...so maybe searching for that "take my breath away" feeling just isn't the brightest thing. Maybe it is far smarter to hold onto that "I am content and plenty of oxygen is reaching my lungs feeling". I think that if movies and books took it past the "Once upon a time" and just short of the "Happily Ever After" maybe there just wouldn't be so many people pushing and searching and fighting and leaving for something they think they want when all that they will really ever need is standing right in front of them ...
Every person has their own idea of what they think their life should be and what is most important to them. There are movies made and books and songs written by people who have a knack for putting what they want and need into words and making those words sound perfect to the ear and look perfect to the eye. They can so skillfully capture that feeling of having your breath taken away...but those songs and books and movies smartly focus on "the beginning" the first few brief moments when nothing in the world matters but the person you are loosing oxygen over. In the beginning when all you see and know for sure is what that person wants you to see and know. I must have watched a million movies in my lifetime...and every one of them had their part in creating this impossible world in my mind, a world that know real man or relationship could ever measure up to. A world where there is no room for mistakes or insensitive words or actions . Such a fairytale existence my choice of entertainment has left me to crave. I will admit willingly and openly I have been sooo very foolish and naive. Fantasy sells, who would rent a movie with a plot that focuses entirely on an average persons true life...all of the dirty diapers and the housework and the one sided conversations and cleaning the toilet and vaccuming and nights without sex and days without money and the resentments and the forgiving and forgetting, keys locked in trucks and a million other small and large things that just make up a normal life...who wants to pay money to watch your own simple little life in a movie or read it in a book? Not a soul I know. People want to see what they don't see everyday and feel what they don't feel everyday and maybe when your staring at the screen or reading those pages or singing along in your car...maybe all of those emotions and feelings are just far to enormous to have to deal with on a regular basis...a person can not live without air...so maybe searching for that "take my breath away" feeling just isn't the brightest thing. Maybe it is far smarter to hold onto that "I am content and plenty of oxygen is reaching my lungs feeling". I think that if movies and books took it past the "Once upon a time" and just short of the "Happily Ever After" maybe there just wouldn't be so many people pushing and searching and fighting and leaving for something they think they want when all that they will really ever need is standing right in front of them ...
posted by Lucy Kruze at 7:35 AM
5 Comments:
Luc, content is not a bad thing, its like a warm fuzzy blanket on a cold winter night, keeps you warm and safe. And in our lives warm and safe was not always there, so when you do have it hold on to it with everything you have. Happily ever after is not just in fairy tales, it does exsist, but its in the happiness we make for ourselves. Its in realising your night in shinning armor is the man who sticks by you through every bad day, every tear, every nasty comment you didn't mean to say, who comes home every night, remembers that new book you wanted, works hard to give you everything he thinks you deserve...Those simple men who know how we are and love us anyway... how blessed we are..
Luc,
I couldn't agree with you more. I have been guilty of wanting that fantasy for myself as I think we all have at one time or another. As I grow older, I must admit, I am more content with my life and also willing to accept people for who they are, faults and all. I am more self-aware of my own faults and try hard to work on them. The hubby and I have had this discussion about how content we are and have wondered: Are we too comfortable, have we become complacent with our lives because we no longer chase that "happily ever after" dream? I think that we both agree that contentedness and that feeling of being safe and knowing that he is always there for me and vice/versa is better than the fantasies we used to pursue that are unrealistic anyway. As always, I enjoy reading your blog and you make me think. Thanx. P.s. if you get a chance, email me one of these days-Blondie
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