Yesterday, Patrick Dempsey and a chirpy, not-so-good-looking Hollywood actress Amy Adams urged me to believe that the so often heard of ‘happily ever after’ existed, very much so....we only have to find our respective prince/princess charming(s); While they tried to the best of their abilities to make the fairy tale look seemingly real, it got me thinking.
Is there really ever a ‘happily ever after’ or is there just an ‘ever after’...Movies, fairy tales, the moonlight sonata, the eternal sunshine of the spotless mind, forever and ever after, eternal love etc..all the enchanted concepts of the enchanted world tempt us, rather lead us to believe that the concept of ‘happily ever after’ not only exists, but thrives amongst us, happily ever after; they talk of love that never died, of happiness that never ceased, of bonds that people never grew over or out of, of hands that were held together forever and ever, of ten years of separation at the end of which your sweetheart waited for you as pristine as you left them...
I began thinking, recalling, of all those I knew, of all those I know, of all those I have known, looking for that ‘happily ever after’...Somehow the enchanted fairy tale, seems to be a very elusive concept in real life. I’ve known people who’ve been with their prince charming for years, only before taking waking up to reality and finding that prince charming was an illusion as elusive as their reality...People have been married, but unhappily ever after...People have sworn love and fidelity to each other only to realize after a few months of ‘loving’ each other that the sight of the other person is a sore to the eyes!
What if ‘happily ever after' is only a concept that has been so romanticized by movies, fairy tales just to appeal to our fancy and increase one’s cost price. In reality does a happily ever after exist? Is it prince charming that we are looking for or is it the next best thing that comes along, who we mould into our image of the prince charming... Then does this concept, so fantasized by us, does this exist at all? Or is it that we have built so much of expectations that even if happily ever after stared us right into our faces we’d fail to recognize it; or better still we’d freak out with the idea altogether. I sometimes think that we set so much by our prince charming that poor prince charming turns into a toad with trying to deal with all the pressure. Poor lill prince charming...
Well, after a point in life, I guess so many complications serve our existence that the thought of an ‘happily ever after’ is as enticing as that pair of red shoes that look oh-so-pretty from the display window, but somehow it’s just not the right fit!! You can never find the right size!
But well then a friend said, ‘It's the idea of Utopia that’s enticing’! So till I find my ‘happily ever after’, I’ll keep looking...
You know what bugs me... there's a 'Prince Charming' dream for you girls, what about us???
ReplyDeleteAnyways, it's human nature to revere that which is unattainable. Which is the reason for that foolish belief of mine... it's about the journey, not the destination.
That's what the trip was about too, if ya remember... :D
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I will...
ReplyDeleteAnd i do... :)
of course happily ever afters exist honey. the trick is to take them for a compilation of short stories, not an ongoing, never ending novel. that way, the end of one, awaits the commence of the other. they are very naive and delicate ash, so remember not to try keeping them,for if u you, they shy away. but once you let them be, they exist in their ongoing loop. and they keep u enchanted, forever :)
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