I rashly committed to a post for the Bookworms’ Carnival this week then realised that I had nothing in the archives that would suit, and no idea what to blog about.
But I said I’d do it, so bear with me … this is going to get rambly …
I’m 37 years old and I still believe in fairy tales.
It sounds like a funny thing, but it’s the truth. I’m coming out: I believe in fairy tales; in magic, in make-believe.
I want to go down the rabbit-hole, to Hogwarts, to Middle Earth, to … Once Upon a Time. Which should be a place, really, shouldn't it? Where all the best stories are and where you could meet your favourite characters?
Anyway.
I’m a grown-up, playing in the big kids’ playground; I’m married, I have a son and I work fulltime. So I’m fairly well-grounded in the real world. But … a part of me still lives in that land of signs and wonder, that you find as a child when you open that book that takes you out of yourself for the very first time and you realise how big the world truly is.
It might be Narnia; it might be Hogwarts; it might even be here, but a ''here'' you had never thought of until now.
I hope that sense of wonder never leaves me. Because that means I’m really a grown-up. And I don’t think that’s a fun world to live in, fulltime.
16 comments:
I don't want to ever lose that sense of wonder either. Thank you for this post :)
I'd love to go to Once Upon a Time. :-) I sometimes think of various fantasylands as my homes-away-from-home, or holiday spots. Here's hoping someone invents a holodeck soon... ;-)
I'd love to go to Once Upon A Time, too :)
I think it's important to keep some sort of childhood into ourselves even as adults
a part of me still lives in that land of signs and wonder, that you find as a child when you open that book that takes you out of yourself for the very first time and you realise how big the world truly is
I totally get this. Decades after it still feels good to believe in the magic that well-written fairy tale gives us.
I'm here from Bookworm's Carnival Fairy Tale Theme post! Glad to have visited this site.
I agree completely :)
Sometimes the posts we calling rambling, just end up saying things true to our hearts.... I chose my blog name for the very same reason. I , too, hope to never lose my sense of wonder.
(jumped over from the Bookworms Carnival)
Lovely post:)I feel the same way when I read.
I'm with you - I can completely believe I am in the land of Once Upon A Time when I immerse myself in a good fairytale - of course thats the reason why my favourite vacation spot is Disney World - the place where you never have to grow up!
I love this post! And I agree with you wholeheartedly! I believe!.. I believe!
I'm loving the carnival; it's my first and I've got a lot out of all the posts I've read.
Thank you all for commenting, and saying such lovely things about my post. It makes me smile when I read them. :)
I believe in magic and Faeryland too, and I also believe that as long as you believe in it, it will always exist, somewhere...
love your post:)
I'm right there with you. I want many "Once upon a times" and to always have a "Happily ever after". Great post :) Don't ever grow up all the way!
To feel any different, I think, would make for a life much less rich! Lovely post.
What a lovely post. Thank goodness our imagination can take us there.
I feel the same thing too. ;)
I love the alternate worlds created in fairy tales--you mentioned Narnia and Hogwarts and think we sometimes forget that those are fairy tales too!
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