IS CINDERELLA
STILL RELEVANT?
By Karen Rose Smith
Remember the
furor over the royal wedding? Kate
became a princess and William became Prince Charming. We watched the vows with tears in our eyes
and couldn't wait for that first kiss. Cinderella might be an ages-old fairytale but the storyline encourages
dreams from the little girls who watch Disney-princess movies to the women who
faithfully follow the Bachelor and the Bachelorette. Subliminally, our curiosity in relationships
and interest in public romances is all about the happily-ever-after
storyline. Can two people fall in love
and commit to each other for a lifetime?
My husband and I
recently celebrated our fortieth wedding anniversary. I wouldn't be able to write romances from my
heart unless I believed in them. When I
was a little girl, I remember pretending a lace curtain was a bridal veil. My girlfriends and I reenacted the marriage
ceremony. Recently by BFF's daughter
asked if she could play dress-up with her mom's wedding gown. Are the dreams of little girls now any
different than ten or twenty or forty years ago? Loving and being loved drive our collective
consciousness. Have you ever been in the
midst of a crowd at a wedding and watched everyone grow misty-eyed? The emotion that takes over—other than the
love we have for the couple saying the vows—is hope. The Cinderella fairytale can give a woman
hope that she can find love, look beautiful in a bridal gown and believe in the
vows she recites on her wedding day.
Little girls
aspire to be princesses. Many women long to believe they will find their one
true love who is kind, gentle, charming and the man they can spend the rest of
their lives with. Prince Charming doesn't have to be a "prince" on a white
steed. He just has to convince the woman he loves that she's his
Cinderella. Are fairy-tale endings
possible? I believe women long to
believe they are. That's why the romance
genre lives on and why our hearts melt when a couple says, "I
do."
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