A Fairy Tale
In the Realm of Reality, Babe and Hunk, each dreamed of finding that perfect someone to marry and live happily ever after. They both had their share of relationships that they ended because they were unwilling to settle for someone who was less than perfect. When they met passion engulfed them and they were blinded by love and they married in less than a year and moved away from the Realm of Reality. Of course, they knew their own faults and frailties, but could see none in the other. Blissfully unaware of the imperfections of the other, Babe and Hunk lived happily ever after in the Land of Lala.
This post is in response to the prompt at
In Other Words
“All have their frailties and whoever looks for a friend
without imperfections will never find what he seeks.”
Cyrus the Great
and the prompt for
Five Sentence Fiction
Engulf
Image: pixabay
I do love happy endings. 🙂
Me, too! Good thing they don’t just happen in fairy tales.
If only life worked out like this! Too often people place their new partner on a pedestal and think they are perfect, then when they start spending all their time together they realize the perfection is an illusion and the other person has flaws just like they do. Sometimes they can make that work comfortably, other times they just can’t live with their shattered illusions, and go off seeking once again the perfect person. I believe that we can find people who are good match ups to us, but they’re never going to be perfect or meet all of our needs. That’s why we need a few friends too!
I think you can be happy with just friends but if you have a lover you better have friends, too. Otherwise, you may be in love but you won’t be as happy as you could be. You have great insights, Josie, thanks for sharing.
Indeed: a very cute, contemporary fairy tale. “Happily ever after” is a good thing, too!
The original draft was kinda snarky so this is the revision. Happily ever after should never be snarky. 🙂
I went through a very rough patch…didn’t even write, barely blogged. I am getting back to it, and hope you will visit me, too.
Good to know your health is improving and you are able to get some writing done. I sneak in at your blog…always enjoy your thoughts.
Lala land is a great place to be, Patricia. Thanks for your cute story.
I occasionally visit the Land of Lala, but I reside in the Realm of Reality. Glad you liked the fairy tale.
Fabulous. I like real happy-ever-after, but Lala is good at the movies. 😀 😀 😀
I tend to live in the Realm of Reality with side trips to the Land of Lala.
I like the way you said this. ❤ 😀
Very Nice! I’m a fan of happily ever afters.
Thank you. I always hope for happily ever afters but in the Realm of Reality it doesn’t always happen.