Cinderella

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Do we all have our happy endings or is it just a dream made up for those who are unhappy? People have their fairy tales to keep them on the "right path" or to give them hope, but are these fairy tales true? Let's take the classic view of Cinderella.

THE FACTS: We have a young girl with an "evil" guardian and her equally "evil" step siblings. The poor young girl is enslaved by these evil people being made to do the grunt work of the household. Enter the prince who NEEDS to find a wife. Throw in a ball that Cinderella isn't allowed to go to. Add in a dash of fairy godmother, a pinch of lost glass shoes and the rest is happily ever after.

THE POINT: Now we are getting to the main point of this discussion; what is HAPPILY EVER AFTER? We hear it all the time, but do we know what it means? I had a conversation with the leading experts on this matter and here is what we have concluded.

THE DISCUSSION:

THE PROFESSOR: The happily ever after stems from the wanting of human nature to have a good ending. It is just a thirst brought on by our ancestors as a need for poetic justice. The step-family? They get nothing while meek, good little Cinderella gets it all. The story must end so we as humans need to let it hanging. And this hanging gives us the sense of poetic justice.

THE PREACHER: Cinderella is whom we should all strive to be! When she is told what to do she does it! As she listens to what she is told and she receives SALVATION! Happily ever after is the eternal salvation given to the meek, humble girl that we should all be like! AMEN! ALL: Amen?

THE EMO/GOTH*: Cinderella is the girl nobody gets. Happily ever after is the euphoria she feels after releasing the inner darkness that lays withing the extreme depths of her soul.

THE REALIST: Cinderella had kids and died. That's all it boils down to...WE ALL DIE

THE WALLFLOWER:Well I think...

ALL: SHUT UP!

THE HIPPIE: Cinderella was a groovy chick and she found her far out man in a peaceful explosion of the mind and they were left in a field of flowers forever. Mind blowing isn't it?

THE CHILD:She lived happily ever after.

ME: Well thank you all and I hope we can have another intellectual discussion like this again.

WHAT I THINK: As we change and grow we see things a little bit different. So what is happily ever after? It is what you make it. Believe in your happily ever after, but sometimes listen to what others say too.

*I know gothes and emos are not the same thing to some, and exactly the same to others, I am using the two terms loosely even though they have