Love is NOT like a Fairy Tale

I am sick of reading all of these fairy tales about girls who are powerless, naive and don't control their own destiny's. Take Cinderella for example, she lets her stepmother boss her around and treat her horribly and she never stands up for herself. I know you are supposed to respect your elders, but there is a line that should not be crossed. When Cinderella finally defies her stepmother and goes to the ball she meets a prince, who is obviously into her. Instead of just telling him who she is when she has to leave at midnight, she runs away and by chance her shoe falls off. Cinderella leaves her one shot at true love, and the chance to get away from her stepmother and wicked stepsisters, for fate to decide. I know that in the real world some people believe in fate, but you cannot depend on luck and fate to get you the things you really want in life. Cinderella’s life would have been way easier if she had just been straight forward with the prince instead of sitting around her castle waiting for him to find her. Love is an emotional, complicated thing. Fairy tales take the complexities away from love and make it as simple as possible. Doing this could be misleading to children. It could make children grow up to think that love is easy and that one day your prince charming will just come along and sweep you off your feet. While this could happen (I suppose) it would be much easier to learn at a young age that love is an emotional roller coaster that take lots of work and patience, but in the end it is an amazing thing.