Peter Pan can fly but the airplanes do fall down and crash. Lucky can survive but most of the passengers died. People don’t need magic pan they just need safety in travelling.
Wendy and little John can fly using tinker bell’s pixie dust. They can travel anywhere in Neverland, compared to a kid who walks miles from their house to school just to attend his/her class every day. Sipag diba! Kamote for dinner.
Imagine how many fats can Jack and Jill can consume in eating too much chocolates, candies and breads. Good thing that they escaped from the witch and avoided from being the dinner. Are they aware of how many children are hungry in the street? A kid that has one meal in a day sometimes never eats anything at all.
Cinderella got the fairy god mother while homeless people, street children have DSWD for human trafficking and child labor. It’s a tie though Cinderella is much older than these kids.
Humpty Dumpty sat on the wall, fell down and broke into pieces. Then one day a man came and fixed him. I just wish that method can apply to heart breaks and broken families. But it’s not that easy, In real life we don’t have magic glues for relationship and magic band-aids for broken marriage.
Frog prince can play the golden ball with the princess but cats and dogs in the street are being killed and eaten by people. Trip lang nila ang asusena at siopao.
I used to be a big fan of fairy tale books because I’m inspired of the happy endings. Eventually growing up is more of endings than happiness. Now that I’m old enough I can only see the jokes in every fairy tale books. If only I knew that from the start, I will cut the pages and make a boat or plane made of paper instead. But I’m not that rude to ruin someone’s happy ending.
Let's be child once in a while.
Then if its happy then its not the end, Its only begun.
