Is there anything that is really impossible?

“The only way to deal with an unfree world is to become so absolutely free that your very existence is an act of rebellion.” -Albert Camus

And Alice has counted six impossible things at breakfast everyday until she made them real. It was her rebellious act. I have believed the Cinderella’s body was totally realistic until I grew up to meet herself and saw her real waistline in AnimatedLand. I have idolise the way she looked like, and I admired many other princesses for the way they approached everyone and everything around them.

Being free could mean many things, but certainly not escaping what once was considered to be impossible to you. Your rebellious act could simply be telling the real body proportions from fiction and loving your own waistline. But it could mean that you need to take a step closer to yourself and work on yourself with your own opinion and likes/dislikes.

Let me know how you bring these two concepts together: impossibility and freedom of physical limits.

Reference
Alice's photo: https://www.pinterest.co.uk/pin/26880929011160613/

Look at the mirror and appreciate

Adventure Time has always been a great inspiration for me, and this image actually summarises my point in writing my finishing project. Interestingly, one of my participants said the exact same thing about herself. This literally made me look in the mirror and appreciate the person I have become.

This is exactly what I am asking you to do today. Can you write your favourite feature about yourself? Let’s embrace ourselves because there are no other to be you.

 

References
Finn the human's photo: https://tr.pinterest.com/pin/302233824976976030/

Let’s celebrate who we are!

Why don’t we take this Sunday to ourselves? Thus, we could focus on what we want to do, and how we want to look etc. Maybe, you could find ways to achieve what you really want in your life just to be happy.

This little boy is the animated character I mentioned in one of my earlier posts. Little brother from Over the Garden Wall, he just looks like me so much! And he is such a brilliant cute boy, I think you should hear him out giving you suggestions to love yourself.

Write down your tips about how you feel more comfortable with your body, what changes your thoughts and feelings toward your own body?

When I don’t like what I see on the mirror, I drink a huge glass of water and look again with another pose!

Reference
Greg's photo: https://tr.pinterest.com/pin/727823989755107683/

Why are there no prince stories?

It is not that easy to answer, to be honest. As the princess digs her ways up to the society to belong, the prince has all the power he strives for. Also, there are always many prince stories, but it’s quite rare to see a story talking about how hard it is for princesses. I pursued a dream of telling you some bits of how hard it is to be a princess, especially in a time of animations, where everyone is perfect! Today is the day that I will write about Giselle from Enchanted. It will get to the point straight forward.

Although it is a semi-animated film, it gives a good amount of understanding about how animated princesses could realize their surroundings and change their ways.

Giselle was a random Disney princess who found(?!) her true love which ended up not being true. The film included a naive princess, an evil step-mother, a knight in shining armour, a real-life man, a little clever girl, and a step-mother to be. Confusing, but still meets the expectations/structure of a traditionally animated fairytale. In this story, the princess is sent to the real world by the evil queen (Prince’s step-mother); and as we wait to see her survival journey, the princess stays positive and finds solutions. Even within her naiveness, she is very clever. The Prince (who is a total silly) comes after her, thinking she fell down to reality by accident. As the prince uses particularly unique ways to find his wife-to-be (aka the princess), the princess (Giselle who was insisting on prince’s love at first) realises that it is not the prince that she loves but the real-life man. At this spot, she finds excuses for not going back to her animated home. She finds happiness through realization, knowledge, and understanding. She gets happy because she can (finally) get angry, get out of tailored standards for her.

The prince is just a regular man whose story has been out in the world for a while, but Giselle creates her own truth, herself. She learns about human behaviour and applies them (partially) to her life with some help from the little clever girl. At the end of the story, we watch Giselle becoming a happy woman who owns her own business. She determines her own happily ever after by simply rebelling what was written for her.

Princes have always found ways out of the stereotype (if they needed) but princesses’ behaviour, actions, appearance have always been written in stone, they did not have the right to (or the capability to) find alternatives. Their story of individuality should be told.

References
Enchanted photo: https://tr.pinterest.com/pin/282108364137520581/

 

Writer’s Story: Winter is way too far away

“Ok, kiddos! Gather ’round! Got a story to tell ‘yah!”

How I loved fairytales, and how upset I became after their replacement with visual productions. So I decided to tell my own tale! The tales all women longed enough for their own happy ever afters where there was no necessity of any other individual. Happily ever after on their own! My story does not start with “once upon a time” though, I’m not a princess either. But as this is a fairytale, let’s start as it always starts!

Once upon a time, there was a normal girl who lived far far away. She had over reactions occasionally, and this was her only super power for a while. Her grandpa used to work far from home, so return of her grandpa was always an exciting and cheerful event. She knew that she was not a princess, but her grandpa was the guardian of her fairyland. He would talk about the gigantic monsters chasing young adventurers, the scary ghosts, fantastic palaces where princesses and sultans lived. For her, although she wished so much to be a part of those stories, she was aware that she was just herself, a normal human-being. As she grew older, her belief for those creatures only got stronger and she has lost her story times. She was a grown-up now, and was not allowed to believe in childish fairytales.

One day, she had to move out of her family’s home which turned out to be her life’s turning point, but she hasn’t known about it, yet.

Now, listen up! Very carefully!

At first, she felt lost, indecisive, scared, not knowing who she is, not liking he skin she was wearing, and most importantly, not knowing how to change it. She was feeling so desperately lonely as her friend Marina describes. And this loneliness, my friends, were her super-power.