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Thursday, December 28, 2006

Not Your Ordinary Fairy-tale

You always read about Jane. You always watch her on the big screen or observe her daily life on her sitcom every thursday night. She lives out her surprisingly not-so-normal life with a certain flair that anyone would kill to have. She makes the jokes, she wears the shoes (stillettos..oh yeah) and she even drives the kind of car they always make commercials about. Jane has everything - and in the end, she always gets the guy. And she lives happily ever after. Whether this episode or flick is a tear-jerker or a laugh-out-loud comedy, Jane comes out on top. What I would like to know is, who is Jane, does she really exist, and where does she get her shoes??

Irrelevent of the fact that I'm a mere sixteen years of age, I am a woman. And like most other women, I want to have that fabulous life of luxury and splendor too - the car, the boy, the outfit, and yet I know, too, that even if, once I had attained all that, things would not be perfect.

There are perfect things in the world. Ben and Jerry's ice cream for instance. That's good shit right there. Bubble baths with a rubber duckie. McDonalds cappucinos and a warm fireplace in the dead of winter. A lazy summer sunset, and fireflies afterwards. Perfect things. There are even perfect moments. Getting your hair to look just the right way. Landing that job interview. Looking at the night sky and spotting a shooting star. The moment he took your hand in his. Perfect moments. And yet, that is all they are, moments.

Some are lucky enough to have en extended series of perfect moments that can last hours, days, weeks. Snaps for them. It is in those days that they feel like Cinderella, who got what she wanted, and lived her perfect fairy-tale life. They feel complete. But not forever.

So what I want is the real story, not some Hollywood-madeup scam. I want a story of a real woman, with real problems, followed by real happiness.....inevitably followed by let downs and depression. It happens to everyone. I'm sure Prince Charming forgot him and Cinderella's anniversary, and instead went out jousting with the guys. I'm sure she spilled wine on her evening gown, and broke the heel off of her designer sandal. So let's hear a story about that girl. Not Jane, everyone's bored of her. Let's hear Polly's story, of a strong woman, who didn't get things perfect, but close, with real problems and situations of a real woman.

Because, in reality, Polly doesn't live happily ever after - that's too much to ask for. No, she simply lived. And that could quite possibly be the ending we're all striving for after all. To live.

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