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.
I don't want to ever lose that sense of wonder either. Thank you for this post :)
ReplyDeleteI'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... ;-)
ReplyDeleteI'd love to go to Once Upon A Time, too :)
ReplyDeleteI 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
ReplyDeleteI 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 :)
ReplyDeleteSometimes 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.
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Lovely post:)I feel the same way when I read.
ReplyDeleteI'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!
ReplyDeleteI love this post! And I agree with you wholeheartedly! I believe!.. I believe!
ReplyDeleteI'm loving the carnival; it's my first and I've got a lot out of all the posts I've read.
ReplyDeleteThank 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...
ReplyDeletelove 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!
ReplyDeleteTo feel any different, I think, would make for a life much less rich! Lovely post.
ReplyDeleteWhat a lovely post. Thank goodness our imagination can take us there.
ReplyDeleteI feel the same thing too. ;)
ReplyDeleteI 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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