letting go

Adieu
Et tâche d'être heureux
J'ai perdu du temps
On est tellement bête
A vouloir cacher
Tous nos sentiments
Voilà que tu pars
Je te demande pardon
J'aurais dû te dire
Depuis si longtemps
Que je t'aimais tant

Va
Maintenant va t'en
J'apprendrai sans toi
A aimer le vent
L'air frais de la nuit
J'apprendrai sans toi
Avec les chenilles
Et les papillons
A tromper l'ennui
Ne traîne pas, adieu
Et tâche d'être heureux

~Le Petit Prince

out the door

of lollies, sweets, and sugar highs

Growing up, the highlight of the day was walking home after school and stopping by the corner store. All the school kids would crowd in around the counter where boxes and bins of candy covered every inch of the shelves and a nickel or dime can buy you a sugary treat bigger than you can fit into your mouth. Underneath all the packaging, all the candy were the same, 100% sugar designed to keep the kids on a sugar high and guaranteed to spoil dinner appetites. And the walk home... oh the joys of sucking on a sweet or inhaling the sugary pixy stixs all with a spring in your step. I'd take little nibbles or licks for maximum lasting power so that by the time you reach home, the sugar is still seeping in through the tastebuds. Sweet tarts, sour keys, and all the little hard candies were sucked on and not swallowed until dissolved into a salivary sugary memory. Those were the golden days of childhood.

fairytale magic and reality

“What if Prince Charming had never showed up? Would Snow White have slept in that glass coffin forever? Or would she have eventually woken up, spit out that apple, gotten a job, a health-care package, and a baby from her local neighborhood sperm bank? I can't help but wonder if inside every successful driven woman is just a princess waiting to be saved?” -Carrie Bradshaw "Sex in the City"

Fairytales frustrate me. Why do the women wait around for the men to show up and save them? We grow up on fairytales, Sleeping Beauty, Snow White, Cinderella... Are fairytales and chick flick movies distorting our idea of romance and finding the perfect mate? We hold out for Prince Charming but in reality, no men are that charming. There are flaws that movies never spotlight on and not all relationships end perfectly with a kiss and singing squirrels prancing about. And yet most girls still believe religiously in the fantasy that a guy will come charging on a white stallion and rescue them from the humdrum of their lives, showering them with princely gifts and serving their every whim. I mean of course, who wouldn't want that?

Are modern women realistic about men and relationships?