Of Princes, Beanstalks, and Taking the Road Less-traveled By

I am a little…uhm… different…from most women.  Even as a little girl, I loved Jack and the Beanstalk better than Snow White or Sleeping Beauty – NOT that this has some kind of subliminal message about my sexual-orientation or anything like that…No, this isn’t that, at all…

(But wait,I am getting too far ahead here…let me backtrack a bit and put things in context)

Remember when you were very young and you had something like a ‘pet’ (or favorite) fairy tale?  Well, to tell you the truth, mine was Jack and the Beanstalk.

I can’t remember dreaming that a prince would someday wake me up and kiss me,

but I distinctly remember dreams of me selling a cow for magic beans and climbing up that tall, magical beanstalk.

I guess this is my very long way of saying that even as children, a lot of the little things we liked actually reflect on what we will become as adults.

Snow White and Cinderella are so popular because they reflect the more universal need to find someone to love and be loved.

Jack and the Beanstalk, I think, reflects an innate sense of curiosity about things, an ‘itch’ for adventure and novelty, a fierce sense of ambition to get to the ‘top.’

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Not that a Cinderella or Snow White can’t ever have Jack-like characteristics or vice versa.

But sometimes, when you are so busy being Jack, you get a little confused.

You have your hands full with

climbing the beanstalk,

and trying to escape the giant,

and putting together the giant’s treasures,

that you forget about your prince ( a mistake I made once and that I sometimes regret, but only ever so slightly)

A lot of people would marvel at my ‘odd’ choice

but while  it is nice and comfy to have that castle-and-prince-charming-combo…

(and it is something I am not averse to in the future)

For right now, it’s certainly exciting being Jack!

Comments

[Luis]

Eventually, Jack killed the giant. Goodluck! =)