I Still Believe, Part II

Hello All!  I hope you didn't miss me too much.  Vacation was awesome.  It was nice to get away and have very little interaction with the outside world!  When I got back my friends Stephanie asked me "Why should she believe in fairy tales?"  I reread the speech text and realized maybe I didn't elaborate enough, so I thought I would now.

First, fairy tales are about hope.  It is believing that something is possible, something is better, or that you can do something.  Hope gives us the ability to take one step forward and gets us to believe in our dreams.  Hope is like a seed with the potential to grow into our hearts desires.  It is hope that acts as a road map to turn a bad circumstance into a good one.  It was hope that got Liz Murray from being a homeless teenager to a Harvard graduate.

Next fairy tales are about faith.  It is about believing in yourself, a loved one, or some unseen source.  Faith does not require physical proof, rather a mindset that what you believe is true.

Fairy tales are about overcoming adversity or your fears.  We all face conflicts.  Some of us avoid them, some of us charge at them, some of us find ways to overcome them and keep them behind us to never bother us again.  We often get discouraged and feel like they are insurmountable, sometimes we give up completely.  The choice is ours to make.  The good thing is that they test our limits and can get us to push beyond our self imposed limitations or the limitations others have put on us.  Regardless of the outcome, they are barriers that we either overcome or hold us back.

Imagination is another facet of fairy tales to believe in.  It feeds our dreams.  Imagination is limitless.  It leads to innovation and invention.  In our imagination nothing can hold us back other than our inability to imagine greater.

Another reason to believe in fairy tales love.  Fairy tales give us an expectation of what we want from family, friends and a future mate.  They help us see qualities that we admire and what we want to feel.  There is no greater unifying force than love.  It isn't always easy, it isn't always attainable, but it is out there and gives us something to strive for.

Finally, we should believe in fairy tales because we want to.  We always have whether it is from a bedtime story read to us as kids or from the latest Disney animated masterpiece, we have all dreamed of being the hero or heroine.  They have made us do the impossible.  They have helped us through some sad and difficult times.  The problem with the world today is that we all want some magical solution to all of our problems, yet we refuse to believe in magic.

Love me, hate me, everyone is entitled to my opinion!