This should be easy. I am a film buff! I LOVE movies. However this is probably one of the hardest assignments I've tackled for PGSD as far as self-reflection. My earliest memories were of my dad picking my sister and I up from school on Fridays and giving us the option of Blockbuster or McDonalds. I was no fool, you get the movie, which you can watch over and over for a weekend, AND then sucker him into the food. (He always fell for that trap)
Nevertheless, I had the older sister influence over our movie of choice. It was always my favorite movie. Every time without fail...The Swan Princess. This movie was everything, and it had everything! A princess, dope within her own right, and a handsome prince are practically raised for marriage. The prince asks her for her hand because she is so beautiful, and she denies him! She had known him all her life, but she just wouldn't let him put a ring on it. Why? She wanted to be more than a pretty face to a man. She wanted him to see all of her, not just her beauty. Once this was interrupted, her father's nemesis comes and kidnaps her and puts a spell on her to turn into a swan by day, and a human by light of the moon. She is trapped in an abandoned moat wing of a castle and left there.
Its a little scary how even 15 years later this movie resonates in my life. Lately I have been feeling trapped by the expectations of others. Those around me always felt they knew what was best for me. So I pursued a major in college, I wasn't really passionate about, because that was the only way I was getting help with finances in school. When I finally broke free of those expectations, I thought, life came and put more on me. Forcing me to put on a happy facade, in good packaging by day, but only having fun when I feel I can truly be myself at night.
Much like the Swan Princess, my task is to find a way to have the courage to be myself in all aspects of my life, and find what truly makes me happy. Along her journey, she had some great friends to help her find that courage; a puffin, frog, and turtle. As silly as it sounds, my puffin, frog, and turtle are my co-writers on this site. They keep me sane and are on a similar journey in their own right.So I don't feel alone in being abandoned' in the real world.
In the end the Swan Princess with the help of her friends overcomes her fears of being the strong and courageous person to those on the outside as she was on the inside.Maybe the key is to sing a catchy song with random pond creatures....if only it were that easy.
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