When you wish upon a star........

When you wish upon a star........

If you have ever watched Disney, you hear this sound track every time the movie begins.  Here are the lyrics:

When you wish upon a star
Makes no difference who you are
Anything your heart desires
Will come to you

Now if you are a true disney fan you just sang it in your head.  If you didn't you are not a true disney fan.  Just kidding!  I'm only being serious........

But if you are a Disney-fan you know that most of their stories/movies/books have been based off of ancient fairy tales that have many different versions of that same story.  Most of these ancient fairy tales ended to a tragedy.  But what child wants to see Ariel being turned into foam, Sleeping Beauty raped, and Pinocchio killing Jiminy Cricket?  WHAT KIND OF A CHILDREN'S STORY WOULD THAT BE?

Not a very good bed time story, but maybe something we could learn from.  Like maybe puppets shouldn't come to life to kill talking crickets.  Okay that wouldn't be the real lesson, it would probably be something much deeper like, not all heroes are perfect.  Heroes fall, but they are a hero because they triumphantly return learning and growing, and being a deeper character than they were before. 

 In the Disney World, things don't have to be perfect during the story, but it has to be a perfect ending.  That's what the song means in a disney film: "That anything the heroes desire will come to them........at the end of this film."  Yeah not as catchy.  But you see my point.  There was never an ending where the couple didn't get together, the bad guy succeeds, and the comedic character somehow dies.   

That's what maybe the world needs a balance of both realism and fairytale.  Enjoying the tales but applying what we learned to what we have now.  Therefore discovering the connection between these two.  Old fairy tale writers learned the lesson of realism and put that in their fairytales.  That not all endings have a happy ending.  That life is messy.  But fairytales have away of translating these truths into something beautiful.