"But," protests Prince Charming, "there's a storm coming...at least let me take you?"
"No. I'll be fine." Her face appears determined but her eyes reveal a deeper sense of worry, conflict, and helplessness. She says. She doesn't mean.
And surprise, surprise, the next scene reveals Snow White, typical damsel in distress, hanging from a fatal cliff in a thunderstorm. Idiot. Why didn't she just let the prince help her in the first place?
Luckily for her he has the decency to follow her and ensure her safety. Yet upon his saving her she does nothing more than regain her breath, shake herself off, and remark, "I have to return that pigeon to its flock." Without allowing herself a moment's hesitation, she marches right back to the caged bird. Thunderstorms--those are easy. Prince Charmings--they are the real danger.
See, this Prince Charming happens to be, well, unavailable. Irregular fairytale, but then again, isn't that what life is truly like?--A mixed up, distorted bedtime story? And Snow White is simply trying to face, with courage, the fate that has befallen her. What more can any of us do?
Sure, the guy is handsome, and yes, his presence releases your wild, eager heart from its cage of emptiness, but certainly, there's a catch more often than not. He's taken, he doesn't return the feelings... maybe doesn't even know you exist, let alone desire to know your soul on a deep level--the way you feel you already know his. Us princesses, we are all so similar--ready to jump at love before it even shows its face. We can't even resist the fantasies we invent. What could we possibly do against a real-life prince when he's before us?
Distract ones self.
That's all you can really do. Snow White had the right idea--focus on that pigeon! So long as her attention, passion, love, devotion, service, and loyalty were all preoccupied with something else, no matter how insignificant, she could walk away from temptation. First she had to recognize this--Prince Charming--as her potential downfall. After all, aren't temptations beautiful more often than not? Fairytale-like? Too good to be true? Well if it seems too good to be true, it probably is. Not to say what you want will always be out of reach, just that a lot lesser things will tempt you to settle, while on your journey. Don't.
Easier said than done, right? That faithless boy is so attractive, that unavailable man is so good at drawing you in, and those feelings... they know how to control ALL of you. Even if they're not returned.
So go, do, serve, and in time--forget. Each time you focus on someone else, you are one step further away from falling all over Prince Charming in a pathetic fit of blind infatuation. Trust me, when you finally master GENUINE distraction, that is only caring about the ones you are serving, NOT what/who you can gain, the true Prince Charming (the available, equally love-struck one) will come riding up and never want to leave you again. Others are most taken with us when we are the least taken with ourselves.
The End
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