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Fake Fairytales to Real Stories

I feel like as you grow up, there's one thing we all learn and we wish we hadn't. Life isn't the fairytale you read about in the storybooks. Life also isn't the perfection you see people plastering all over social media. Life is dirty, its complicated and its sometimes questioned to be even worth while. Here's what we don't learn growing up however, life is worthwhile. Tonight I'd like to give you a new perspective on exactly why. We all want that perfect fairytale life right? I mean who wouldn't? Elaborate cloths, no chores, no work, seemingly endless possibilities, sounds perfect right? Well actually here's a shocking plot twist, the answer is no. None of that is perfect because its staged. None of that is real, its not real moments shared between loved ones, its not the respect or lessons learned by working hard. Its not appreciation when everything is just given to you. It actually appeals to no real human senses except imagination and longing which is practically greed or lust over the impossible. The same goes for these fantasy social media lives, these "perfect" pictures you see aren't so perfect. Why you ask? Well how many apps or filtering mechanisms did it take to get that look? Not only that, some moments on social media are real and they look great but how many messy, confused, flat out uncoordinated moments in-between are we missing because they weren't shown? Life isn't a fairytale, that's for sure but instead of teaching our future generations to see that as a bad thing, we should be teaching them to embrace, love and properly handle life's real, messy, uncoordinated yet amazing moments. We need to spend less time nose in the fairytale's, and less time eyes on the screen of someone else's one in a million perfect picture they managed to capture and start focusing on writing our own life stories. Not stories like the fairytales but stories of what it means to work hard and show love, compassion, stories of what it means to laugh even when you feel like crying. Stories of people pulling through the not so picture perfect moments and stories that at the end of our lives not only can we look back and be proud of, but that our future generations can be proud of! Its time to stop encouraging fake fairytales and start writing stories of the lives we can stand up and proudly claim as our own unique books.

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