Take, for instance, a fairy tale like Cinderella: The fairytale teaches children to want to feel special, to want to be unique - it creates a drive within children to want to feel a certain way about themselves - but the reality they end up facing contradicts this desired self definition, and the child ends up not being able to be what they wanted to be, with no tools to deal with this. This, as well as the idea that love is the greatest attainment in life, that there is this magical feeling that sweeps us off of our feet - which is just an energetic rush that never lasts - so that we will know we have found "the one". Unfortunately the fairytales give no practical advice to actually sustain a relationship, so when the child grows up they are searching for this energetic rush that inevitably fades away, and when it does they will end the relationship and search again for the feeling. - Cerise Poolman
Posted on: Sat, 29 Jun 2013 09:32:23 +0000
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