You, like many others, may have come to this article because you want more from life. In this sense, you and I may be alike because we’re searching for greater happiness and a stronger sense of fulfillment.If you are someone in your thirties or older, and perhaps western, then you, like me, may have read enough adventure stories or seen enough Walt Disney to have been heartened by
stories of ugly guys, like beast in Beauty and Beast, winning beauty, Belle. I don’t know about you, but that story gave me hope!
And maybe you relate to heroics of Robin Hood who stood no nonsense, not even from baddies in charge while King Richard crusaded. And Robin, in between robbing rich and dishing it out to poor, still had time to get his work-life balance right. In between robbing rich and dishing it out to poor he still had time to party with his mates and date fairest maiden in land. The old rogue!
Maybe you loved never-grow-old attitude of Pan, willed Hercules to conquer all and craved day that you could leave school and set off through forest of life, whistling and singing as merrily as one of Seven Dwarfs, as you headed your way to a job that made your heart sing with joy!
And maybe, like me, now you’ve grown up, you realise that world is not quite way you imagined it in your youth: Cinderella has not pulled up outside your home in her pumpkin carriage, nor is Snow White cooking dinner for you when you get home from office after a day working for a guy who would find himself in steaming hot water if he had a nose like Pinocchio.
Well I don’t know about you, but I felt a little disgruntled and let down with way life turned out after such a romantic, adventurous childhood heavily laden with dreams.
Disgruntled by time I hit my mid-twenties? More like disconnected: divorce, obesity, financial troubles and abuse had all gone on in my life by then and I suppose in a way I did feel like a couple of dwarfs – grumpy and sleepy! Maybe your experience is similar, maybe a little different, slightly better or worse, but I’m sure we can empathise with each other and maybe even share a little feeling of disillusionment with life in general.
