Everyone always says that Disney fairy tales have messed with our view of dating, and what true romance should look like. So I figured after watching Sleeping Beauty last night I’d let you know what I learned.
-Witches suck! So glad they don’t exist in the real world…
-Those are 3 of the coolest fairies ever, if I ever have fairies I want them to be that spunky!
-I think this movie may be the reason most everyone hates crows, poor crows.
The power of true loves kiss…ahh Princess Aurora and Prince Philip what a perfect pair, they both believe this! But in all seriousness there are some good take aways here. Prince Philip’s horse changes colors, his horse is white for the “save the princess” stage of the movie and brown for the remainder of the movie, indicating that perhaps we all lose sight of reality just a bit when we are in love. He was also presented with tremendous obstacles in order to reach his princess to save her, but he didn’t lose heart, he fought through for their love. Now, I know most people are going to say, ugh unrealistic no man is going to fight that hard to get to a girl. BUT, I would argue that this is probably a more realistic portrayal of what real relationships will look like that we are willing to admit. They will not be easy, there will be obstacles both big and small, and if you’re not willing to fight for the one you love, then what does that say?
So before we all write off this story as a cute little fairy tale, remember these things and give Disney a break!
This should probably be started off by saying that my family has a long history of attending traffic safety school, or high performance driving school as we like to call it. When I first attended I was 16 and I think I actually got into a debate with the instructor because he informed me that there were no small rear wheel drive cars….so not true! How could I trust him to teach me sound high performance driving skills if he believed this…I drive one! Well, I have landed myself back in high performance driving school, and have only avoided it so far by getting tickets in a plethora of other states…tee hee heee! So this time, it’s the online version for me, no instructor to fight with and no stinky classroom to suffer in for 8 hours.
As the day started yesterday I gazed down at my street from my apartment…a street that was knee deep in snow and dotted with buried cars. I sat in my apartment longing for a snow plow to remove the 20 inches of snow that coated Hamilton Ave 2 days prior but alas…nothing. At around 1:00 I heard a great rumble jumped up with a bit of a shreak , saw a yellow caterpillar plow thingy and thought about dancing a jig! FREEDOM!
Krista and I had discussed digging out Tabitha’s car since she was out of town…but Krista’s back was really hurting from all of the shoveling the day before. So in my somewhat motherly ways, I forced her to stay on the couch and wandered outside to start the work…this went on for about 40 minutes and I had to jump on a call during this time I met Justin #1…almost every car had someone shoveling it was really a cool scene. In for a bit and then back out I went. Tab’s car was free and I met Justin #2, attempting to shovel a place to put his car. So I moved down the street to work on Krista’s car…there I saw Justin #1 again, we chatted about the fun, as he was digging out the car behind me. We made a plan and joined forces. The united forces were now enjoying the shoveling fun…next up his girlfriend Jamie’s car, poor thing had the flu so she was our overseer. On our way down the street, we met Sara, who was lounging making sure that Justin #2’s spot didn’t get stolen while he grabbed his car…once he was parked we all moved down the street to conquer Sara and Jamie’s cars. All the while laughing, joking and getting to know each other. We all live within a 2 house radius and this was the first time we had met…after those cars were free, another guy came out…whose name I missed…bagh! We worked on his car and then moved on to help Evan. At this point Krista realized she was missing the fun as the group of us wandered down the street from car to car digging our way free and she emerged…we helped, no name guy some more and decided to free up a vacant spot. 
Everyone always says that Disney fairy tales have messed with our view of dating, and what true romance should look like. So I figured after watching Sleeping Beauty last night I’d let you know what I learned.
