I maintained a diary when I was a wannabe teenager… and since I am a girl,it was all about boys, first crushes and heartbreaks. At the time of course those heartaches (generally caused by my crush not noticing me at a movie etc) seemed insurmountable. I actually flaunted a calendar wherein I marked with red-dots, dates I had seen my crush….blue-dots were for days when he spoke to me ..and so on…
Why is it like this with girls? You think the Cinderella and other ‘pink’ princess fairy tales mess with our minds right from the start? All women believe deep down that their prince is salvation.. the answer to this strife. We may have the best job, great education et all.. but we are looking out for that man, the love of our lives to appear and make the ‘boo-boo’ go away.
I am a single mom to two beautiful girls now and I know what a real heart break is all about. I also know that life goes on …even in single mode. and there are bigger things out there waiting for me… I may score great on the GMAT and get accepted into one of the leading business schools of the world.. but my heart is concerned most about finding the man of my dreams. And this is true for most of my single friends… the hunt for the perfect husband…the cynosure of their existence! (the married ones of course are content drawing vicarious thrills from all my romantic encounters with the opposite sex… casual flings being the all time favorites with them!)
Maybe we in-turn as parents are messing with our girls minds and feeding them too many ‘prince fell for her and kissed her’ mush.. and they lived happily ever after. We need to get a reality check right there ..subtly though… but we may need to toughen our girls up!… any takers?
ON a lighter note: read this on FB … of fairy tales and little girls:
Cinderella snuck out to a party and danced with a strange guy till midnight,
Jasmine had a forbidden relationship,
Snow White lived with 7 men,
Sleeping beauty slept till she was kissed by a total stranger,
Little Red Riding Hood din’t listen to her mother,
Pinocchio was a liar,
Robin Hood was a thief,
Tarzan walked without clothes on,
Sleeping Beauty slept the whole day until a guy kissed her,
… these are the stories we’ve been raised with and then they complain our generation’s messed up!! 🙂
onmyowngirl 