Once upon and time and happily ever after!
Those were the tales we grew up with! Be it movies or stories; everyone is happy in the end! The villain is always defeated and the hero is always the winner!
The best thing is that you know who is the villain and who is the hero!
Who is your actual friend and who is your foe!
Then you grow up and realize that it is all a story! Then again sometimes your own story can be a fairy tale! But if you think about the real stories behind the fairy tales then you would realize that life is a fairy tale but only that it is unmodified!
In the story Pinocchio, when Pinocchio is teased about his wooden head by his cricket companion, the enraged puppet throws a hammer and kills him!
In Andersen’s telling of the little mermaid, the witch silences the little mermaid by cutting off her tongue! Also the little mermaid loses her prince to a human bride and smiles at him one last time as she and her sisters rise slowly to heaven!
In the actual stories of Cinderella, the evil stepmother hands a knife to the eldest of her two daughters, and orders her to cut her toe off to fit in the glass slippers!
In a version of Red Riding Hood, as a warning to young women to avoid sexual predators, he simply allows the flirtatious Little Red Riding Hood to be eaten by the big bad wolf!
And in Snow White; her evil stepmother is invited to Snow White’s wedding, where the guests heat a pair of iron shoes on burning coals. She’s then forced to step into the red-hot footwear and dance in agony, until she falls down dead!
Those are the real fairy tales! Real and tough…which is life…
It’s a fairly tale if something is named after you for perpetuity! Like the Boson named after Satyendra bose!
May the new year be like the fairy tale of your childhood like Boson!
Shubh ratri!
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