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cinderella

31 March 2003 - 11:37

<<--unravel * reintegrate-->>

(from paper journal 25 Feb 03)

Donna waits for [him], and as she waits, she recalls the symbols of belief systems with which she has been inundated since birth or before. Cinderella and this life of misery where your family disowns or abandons or mistreats you, and your true salvation lies only in Prince Charming. And his favor or disfavor can erase or drive home the pain they created. If that pain were never real in the first place, if it had all been perception squeezed into deformity by ideas like, 'I can be hurt,' 'Other people control my life,' 'I am unworthy,' then she really ought to become the heroine of her tale, and she really ought to start acting from a place of beauty and strength. Forget about the Prince, or create something different with him. Start a kingdom inside herself where her beliefs help her.

And what would life be about in her kingdom? Expansion. Meeting people and exploring them without need or prejudice, skipping around to fantastic places near and far, asking the question, exactly how wonderful can life be?

And you can do this with or without Prince Charming, and you can heal your wicked step family and maybe even find a way to talk to your dead father again.

Step out of your glass slipper -- it confines you -- and fly into infinity.

<<--unravel * reintegrate-->>