Monday, March 16, 2009

Fairy tales

"Once upon a time, the Princess met a Prince, they spent 2 hours together, fell in love, spent X time fighting against great odds, finally got together again and married. The end." You sighed, closed the book, wished you could fall in love like that and heard from the nearest adult, "Yes, it´s nice, but it´s not true."
Is it any wonder our notion of "falling in love" is so twisted?
When you are little, you usually have only two points of reference as to what falling in love is: your parents (and many of us sadly did not have a very good point there) and fairy tales.  If your parents are not a shining example of marital bliss and fairy tales are just not true, what else is there?
And we grow up, our hearts yearning for that one true love, our minds constantly reminding us that it does not exist. 
Did you ever stop to think that maybe neither extreme is true?

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  1. Mario Estuardo ArchilaMarch 24, 2009 at 11:57 AM

    Falling in love: doesn't it imply to us we are "down". Being "down" is not good... so falling is failing, crashing. Being in love has an stigma in the world.
    No wonder. Culturally we are not prepared to see love a as blessing. Love as an act of conviction and purpose. We see love as "falling", going down.
    Time to change the expression, don't you think?

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