I was looking through my baby pictures and wasn’t really surprised to see myself in the “princess dress”, you know the puffy pink dress we were all forced to wear in Eid.
As usual, my mind started to drift, are we being fed the wrong information since our childhood? My mum told me that whenever someone asked me what I wanted to be when I grow up, I would always say I want to be just like Barbie or Cinderella.
To my surprise most girls around me shared pretty much the same interests; a handsome husband with six packs (maybe a moderately thin guy) on a white horse ( now exchanged for a white Bentley) who comes from a long line of Kings (nowadays traded for a businessman).
Did watching too many cartoons and playing with just as many Barbies mess with our expectations? Do we expect to meet our Prince Charming at the ball ( aka a cousin’s wedding) who would fall madly in love with us and propose marriage before 12:00 a.m?
Let’s just assume we did go to the ball and stayed till after midnight, will we be happy if we left that Dh 1500 shoe? And you know what they say ” you have to kiss a lot of frogs before you find the handsome prince” How will that happen when our society forbids dating ?
What if there’s no prince and all there is are just frogs? What if I’ll never meet Prince Charming at the ball because he had food poisoning and threw up all night?
We can’t always expect things to be perfect, because things in life aren’t. On the contrary, they’re the next closest thing to perfect.
Don’t wait for your prince to climb up your hair and enter your room to save you from your miserable life! Wake up and look around. This is as good as it gets. Grab it and make the best out of it.
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By Manar Al Hinai
