{"id":5684,"date":"2015-06-10T17:00:17","date_gmt":"2015-06-10T23:00:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.amyreesanderson.com\/blog\/?p=5684"},"modified":"2015-06-05T18:01:58","modified_gmt":"2015-06-06T00:01:58","slug":"whens-the-last-time-you-read-a-fairy-tale","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.amyreesanderson.com\/blog\/whens-the-last-time-you-read-a-fairy-tale\/","title":{"rendered":"When\u2019s the last time you read a Fairy Tale?"},"content":{"rendered":"

\u201cSome day you will be old enough to start reading fairy tales again.\u201d\u00a0<\/strong><\/span>\u00a0 C.S. Lewis<\/p>\n

What a great quote and even better reminder.\u00a0 As a kid we love reading fairy tales and watching them on TV and in our favorite Disney movies. We dream about Once Upon A Time and Happily Ever After on a regular basis. Then we grow up and become stressed out, overworked adults who get all caught up in being \u201ctoo busy\u201d all the time. Too busy to laugh, too busy to take a break, too busy to have fun, too busy to go play outside\u2026. It\u2019s sad really.<\/p>\n

Then, as CS Lewis says, some day we will be old enough to slow down and start reading fairy tales again. Except I don\u2019t want to wait! I don\u2019t want to have spent my \u201cmiddle\u201d years being too busy to dream about Once Upon a Time and Happily Ever After. So thanks to his awesome reminder I am going to read a fairy tale this week!\u00a0 Heck,\u00a0I may even watch a Disney movie cause I want to be that person who takes time to dream, and who gets all googly about the cute love stories and the princes and princesses\u00a0in beautiful castles!<\/p>\n

Maybe if we \u201cmiddle\u201d year adults took more time to stop and read a fairy tale once in a while our lives would be better.\u00a0 Maybe we would feel less stressed out and have a little\u00a0more faith and hope in those Once Upon a Times and Happily Ever After\u2019s actually coming true.\u00a0 And we can’t forget to go\u00a0dance at a ball and have at least one pair of amazing sparkly shoes\u2026because we all know that Cinderella\u2019s story proves that a great pair of shoes actually can bring you a Happily Ever After!\u00a0 #truebeliever<\/p>\n

Sweet dreams everyone, while you are awake hopefully! Go read a fairy tale!<\/p>\n

~Amy<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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