Waking up, quick breakfast, school / university / work, home sweet home, dinner, TV, Internet, sleep. And the same schedule tomorrow… and the day after tomorrow… and so on… Weekends might be coloured a bit with a short walk in the nearby park, visit to a concert, meeting with friends, or more TV / Internet.
It is quite familiar to you, isn’t it?
Well, this is the standard interest-and-passion-killing creativity-destroying freedom- eliminating everyday life. It is easy to plan and predict it, however it lacks of surprises, mysteries, and magic.
But if we do not want to make our life “standardized”, if we desire some pleasant surprises and real magic in it, if we want to add a lot more colours here, where should we look for them? Yes, in fairytales.
Do you remember all those thrilling stories and legends full of rich castles, brave knights, beautiful princesses, and romantic happy-endings with the enchanting Magic of Love? What was your favourite one? “Beauty and the Beast”? “Cinderella”? Or perhaps “Father Frost”?
In your childhood you most probably dreamed about being inside this fairytale and saving the beautiful princess trapped in a high tower from the ferocious fire-spitting dragon. Of course, you have always been victorious and deserved a sweet and tender kiss.
Or maybe you dreamed of being a princess yourself awaiting the handsome prince on his snow-white mighty stallion. And certainly he had always come only for you.
Do you want to get back these magical feelings? Do you wish to enjoy your life like a child? Do you desire to turn your every day into an enchanting fairytale? Yes?
Then DO IT!
Well, I should make myself clear here. Surely I do not motivate you, for instance, to steal a sword at the local museum and charge the nearby tax collector’s office with a shout: “Die, you blood-sucking dragon!”. In this case you might really end up in a “castle” (asylum, that is), but without any beautiful princesses… well, there might be some… those, who also took my advice very literally.
What I want to point out here is to make your own daily life and the lives of your dearest ones as wonderful and enchanting as in a fairytale.
Take a look around. There is always something from a fairytale in the environment. For example, Denmark, the country I currently study in, is quite rich in this aspect: they have the queen with her royal family; plentiful of beautiful castles and palaces; the magical amusement park “Tivoli” with sultan’s palace, pirate ship, Chinatown, etc.; den Lille Havfrue (the Little Mermaid), and many more things and places of this kind. Sometimes one can see royal coaches with graceful horses on the streets. No wonder one of the most famous personalities (if not the most famous one) in this country is Hans Christian Andersen – the poet and storyteller, author of such well-known fairytales as “The Snow Queen”, “The Little Mermaid”, and “The Wild Swans”.
So, why not to use this magical environment?
Take your boy/girlfriend on a visit to the Rosenborg Castle, for instance. Have a walk along the alleys of the King’s Garden, where the Castle is situated. Show him/her the beauty of the Mother Nature around. Plant two rose seeds there in order to come back to the Garden some day, see them blossom and recall that romantic day. Then enter the Castle and discover many elegant royal rooms and astonishing treasury in the cellars. Feel yourselves as true prince and princess there. Don’t forget to go upstairs to the Throne Room. And there, among the beauty and majesty, recite a romantic poem / fairytale / legend of your own dedicated to your beloved one (here and here are two examples in Russian).
The next day you can go to other places and / or come up with new interesting things and activities. Thus you keep your creativity and innovation working and love and interest to life glowing.
Do not have a beloved one yet? Well, if you spice up your daily life with fairytale magic, some day your prince / princess will find you. Because in this way your living becomes a fairytale, and in all fairytales prince and princess are meant to be together in order to “live happily ever after”.
And you do not necessarily need to come to Denmark to experience all this. It is not the place that makes a fairytale so interesting and inspiring – it is the characters. You are able to create your own wonderful story in every country of the World. For it is YOU who are the storyteller, the wizard who makes all the magic.
So, let’s start making it and creating your fairytale today:
Once upon a time…
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