As little girls, we have all read and empathized with Cinderella: her vulnerable beauty, her quiet subjugation to the constant tortures of her stepmother and her ugly sisters, her fleeting moment of glory as she was blessed by the fairy godmother, her Prince Charming, but most of all, her escape from her paradise at midnight before it all came crashing down.
Mercifully, today, in urban India, we no longer have to put up with the vicious stepmom or the bullying sisters, we no longer need the fairy godmother and her magic wand and we also don’t need the Prince Charming to rescue us from life: we have education, employment, alcohol, chocolates and beauty magazines to empower us. But the running away from the ball is still a part of who we are: on most occasions, like Cinderella accepted the domestic tribulations as a part of her life, we also learn to deal with the daily miseries (office politics, inflation, plumbing mishaps), but just as she ran out on the perfect evening, we often run out on things/people which/who make us happy, because we are scared.
It’s midnight again: time to run away, time to get back to the familiar humdrum of life, time to put the perfect evening behind…
12 comments:
Nice one!
@shivangi
we all know it's u
Whose Shivangi?
@shivangi
awww.... now we r forgetting our own names also... so sad...
Read the question again. Your answer will be different.
@neil
:) u temme the answer...
nice one..and what about the spa sessions and the makeovers which empower us too:)
@rich!
ohh yeah... not to mention retail therapy. thank god for materialistic pleasures
and your blogger id says it all :)
Read this somewhere: Cindrella has proved that a new pair of shoes can indeed change your life. ;)
@carpe diem
if only it was as simple as that... I have bought so many useless pairs of shoes hoping for 'the change' but no luck so far :(
Now THAT is true. And by THAT, I mean your post not the above comment. :-P
@shelly
thank you. and welcome!
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