Love Your Story

Episode 149 How is Your Life Like a Fairytale? Once upon a time, there was you…. And then what happened? When we are young we pattern our life dreams and expectations after the stories we hear and the movies we watch. Often, in American culture, Disney plays a major role in that. While the Disney rendition of fairytales is a butcher job of the originals, children only know what they are shown and taught and so we head off into our lives picturing a prince or princess and a happily ever-after. We all want love, magic, and riches. That sounds good – I’ll take that. I learned this week when I asked people how their life was like a fairytale, that the go-to mindset was to think about how it was a happily ever after. Fairytale seems to equate with perfection or the ideal. Stay tuned to hear my man-on-the-street quicky interviews where people got to share how their lives were like fairytales. When I first started getting the responses and everyone was going straight to the happily-ever-after,  I had to ask – h