Is it long now before all the myths and fairytale come true?

Answer 1

Something got me thinking about high school again. Maybe it was a conversation with some friends about the word arrogant. Everyone who was there was decidedly uncool in high school. We were all the sensitive, deep feeling types. The kind who invested personally in everyone and everything. Each of us had been called arrogant. We were all so far from that. People called us arrogant when they didn't understand. It happened when we felt shy and held back.

But I can’t stop thinking about it, and what I’m thinking is that I’ve been arrogant, but not in the way people who called me that thought I was.

You see I thought I was the most different one this planet ever saw. No I didn’t think it. I was sure. The ugly duckling was a movie star compared to me.

It took the longest time for me to figure out that everyone feels different. I was no special case. In some way, everyone feels like they are that proverbial island that no man is supposed to be. High school is the archipelago of humanity.

No one had it easy. Everyone didn’t quite fit. Some felt it more than others. Some had power and some didn’t. But even the cool kids admit that they felt one slip away from falling into the uncool abyss. Whenever high school becomes the topic of conversation, almost everyone says the same thing—once was enough for that sort of bliss.

The very coolest kids—those in the extreme— never left behind their small-town, high school way of judging things. They sort of stopped living fifteen minutes after graduation. High school became the frozen moment, the high point of their life. They still talk about the big game as if it were last week. Seeing one is like a rare bird spotting. They’re best found returning to their glory—at class reunions looking at the mannequins dressed in football uniforms. That’s what it meant to be super-cool—too cool to talk to—they gave up a lot. They got to run a universe, and then their universe ran out.

At one time they were almost scary, now they look sad to me.

I thought I was different, but I know that I’m not.

What do I still carry from my high school years—besides my fear of the word arrogant?. Do I flinch inside when I walk by the mannequin at the class reunion? How much of my life is an echo of those days? Maybe high school puts recordings in everybody’s head. If one extreme is still playing last week’s game, is another still fretting last week’s disappointment?

Do you suppose the ugly duckling ever swam far enough to believe that he was beautiful?

Myths or fairytale~ A little of both to get through!

Answer 2

Myths and fairytales have always been true. They have their basis truth and reality. Many are cautionary tales. Others explain evolution and really don't fall that far from fact. Myths and fairytales are far more significant than we give them credit for. They are not just fictitious or stories to entertain children. I love myths and fairytales because they are so rich with the universal themes of the cultures of the world. Can you tell I've been reading Joseph Campbell?

Answer 3

As far as I know, myths & fairytales are fables. Stories maybe based on some truism, but not necessarily truth themselves. Therefore, I'd have to say no. But without knowing exactly which ones you're referencing, it's a hard question to answer with any specifics.

Answer 4

I hope not. They contradict each other too much. Think Chinese, Greece, European and Indian Fables....

We'll have 2000 diff dragons and pheonixs all over the sky and 2 million GODS walking around naked

Answer 5

They are all true, or more correctly, allagories based on true events in one way or another...

Will unicorns start riding around the forests...probably not

Answer 6

Yep. Quite a while.

Answer 7

silly man...you know everything is already true. perception is all!