My Fairy Tale

This is a really long week. rarely am I gone all 5 days and when I am the week seems to drag on and on. I miss you every minute of every day. I am sure you already know that but seeing it in print can't be a bad reminder.

I am reading this book about "the power of story". Frankly I didn't know what the book was about when I picked it up, but the topic kind of intrigued me. It is a leadership book where the author teaches people to write the story of their current lives and then reflect on that and write the story of their life they would really like to take place. I started to go through some of the exercises on the plane. List these 5 things, list those 5 things, etc. Then it hit me.

I like the story of my life. I like it a lot. The story I have now is the story I want told about me forever. My story is almost a fairy tale. It has been that good. Well the past 20 years have been that good anyway.

The fairy tale begins with you.

Once upon a time there was this prince. He didn't know he was a prince. Every day he toiled at his work taking calls from the evil travel agents. His nights were filled with bad dreams and dark tales. Every day was much like the day before. Every day seemed just a little more empty.

Then one day while the prince who didn't know he was prince was at his job he saw the girl of his dreams. She walked by like a vision. Flowers circled her head. The sunshine followed her as she walked by. A beautiful song played in the prince's head every time he thought of her. The prince knew he had to meet this vision of beauty.

Luckily the "kind of wicked" step sister decided to introduce the prince to the beautiful girl. Nervously the prince picked the girl up her house. She was amazing. The prince took the girl on a date and he was so happy. They saw a old couple dancing in the streets and they smiled. They ate a meal cooked by leprechauns (ok thats funny right?). They had a wonderful time. The prince took the beautiful girl home and gave the shared a magical kiss.

The prince and the beautiful girl spent all of their time together and were so happy. They laughed together and had so much fun. Until the really EVIL sister starting tricking the prince into thinking the beautiful girl was a witch. Confused the prince pushed the beautiful girl away. The EVIL sister had won and the prince was no longer happy. The prince tried to get away from the EVIL sister but couldn't.

The just before the winter came the prince caught a break. He was wounded in a battle and the beautiful girl called to find out how he was doing. The prince was so happy. He took the beautiful girl to the ball and he knew he could never let her get away again. He shunned the EVIL sister and pushed her into oblivion. He made the beautiful girl the most important thing in his life. He knew they would never be apart again.

From there every day was better then the last. The beautiful girl turned out to be a princess. The prince realized that with the princess he really was a prince. They got married. They had two beautiful daughters. They smiled. They laughed. The spent every day hopelessly in love. The spent every day blissfully happy.

Along the way they slayed many dragons. The fought off the return of the EVIL sister. They survived hard times. The built a castle together. They move to a new kingdom together. They watched their own little princesses grow into young ladies together. Their fairy tale got better and better.

And every day they lived happily ever after. Over and over again.

Baby You're the world to me and I love you more than anything in the world.