Fairytale

                                                                                      

".......and they lived happily ever after" the usual closure line of all the fairytale we have read till date. The prince arrives on a white horse and takes the princess along with him to lead a happy life ahead. As we complete reading such a story we close the book but the last line linger in our mind. We close our eyes and begin to dream.... We start weaving a whole web of beautiful thoughts. However life isn't so easy and calm as these stories depict. Every sunrise announces the arrival of a new day bringing along lots of surprises and shocks too. The prepared ones with the sharpened tools move on leaving the dreamers behind. I am not saying that we shouldn't be positive about life, we should indeed be but to an extent that we accept the negatives too along with it. In order to accept the negatives we should inculcate the right thoughts within us. 'Life is not a bed of roses' someone said and it has grown into a cliché now. All the people have this proverb at their tongue tip but still......still they narrate the so called fairy tales to their baby girls. They grow up into a teenager with lots of expectations about life. She feels that life has got a lot to offer, especially love. Even when she looks through the window and sees the pavement or the road nearby she feels that her prince charming is on his way...riding on a white horse or these days in a luxurious car. She feels that her life also just like the princess will turn out beautifully well. But hey...let us get this straight. It is the 21st century that we are living in, where things are not the way it seems to be. We expect something and what happens is totally different. So are we being misled the whole of our tender childhood? The little girls are fed with lots of beautiful stories all of them with a happy ending in which everyone unites and leads a happy life. Our elders having lots of concerns within them always want us to have a pleasant thought about life, so that we feel to live and love our life. Due to these thoughts we trust everyone we meet and imagine a fairytale ending for our personal story too. When it happens the other way round we are left feeling betrayed. We have a tough time accepting it. Soon we are left to wonder and we question ourselves....it was not so sad in the fairy tales but why is my life so? 'Heartbreak' as they term it has become the leading cause for the depression in the teenagers. There was a time when love was pure and sacred - it dates back to the time of Romeo-Juliet or Heer-Ranjha but the scenario now is completely a different one. Even commitment is very difficult for the lovers of today. Living happily ever after in every one of our dreams which seldom comes true. Knowing this we still think that life is just as beautiful as it is put in the childish stories of love. Life does not offer everything we need and some special things are held selfishly away from us. We crave for it but still we don't get it.

Want to read a fairytale? - think twice. Let us face the real life and prevent ourselves from feeling betrayed.