Life is Not A Fairytale

(November 6, 2010)

Life is not a fairytale. It isn’t filled with the perfect ending and a love that never dies. Life is filled with mistakes, heartache, loss, and tearful goodbyes. The bigger the risk, the bigger the mistake may be. The deeper you love, the more tearful the goodbye. The closer you hold people to your heart, the more drastic the heartache. The more you need someone, the more painful the loss.


The perfect, fairytale ending doesn’t exist because life is full of contradictions and trials. The truth is that this is a much better way to live than in a storybook or a Disney movie. The more you fall and dust yourself off again, the more it makes life worth it. People make mistakes, they give up and let go, they change their minds and do the one thing they swore they’d never do, but this is what makes them who they are.


Without all the unmapped roads taken, the speed bumps we didn’t see, the choices we never thought we would make, and even that step off a cliff made us strong. All the loves that left, all the lies we are told, all the people who betray our trust, and all the unfair life lessons that we learn bring us to appreciate the good lovers, all the truths we are told, all the loyal people in our lives, and all the good advice that we receive. Without all the hard times in life, we would take the good times for granted.


We must learn from our mistakes and remember the valuable lessons that we learn. Love like you have never been hurt, keep those you care for close, and fully experience the tears. We will all love and lose, achieve and fail, try and give up, and even though it isn’t always fair, it will always be worth it. At the end of the day it is true, life is not a fairytale…it is much better!