Thursday, 04 February 2010
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Once Upon a Time...
In the January issue of Glamour magazine (page 65), there's an interview with Elizabeth Gilbert, the author made famous by her book Eat, Pray, Love (if you haven't read this, it's amazing). It chronicles her journeys as a writer through Italy, India, and Indonesia after a brutal divorce. She then meets her new husband to-be, Felipe, while in Indonesia, and they've been married and madly in love for five years, a big feat for her Gilbert, as she has always been a self-proclaimed commitment-phobe.
Glamour calls her story a fairy tale, which got me thinking...in this tough world of cynicism and situations often ending up too good to be true, it seems like real-life fairy tales happen far and in between. It makes me wonder why some people are so blessed and lucky enough to have these kinds of experiences, and not others.
If you're one of the lucky ones who's had their own fairy-tale occur (whether it's about love/dating or not), I'd love to hear your story...it'd be nice to know that all those years of Disney movies and Barbie weren't a complete waste.
PS- Look out for the upcoming movie based off of Gilbert's book, also titled Eat, Pray, Love, starring Julia Roberts and Javier Bardem. Also be sure to check out Gilbert's new read coming out this month, Committed. (Man, I should get paid for this promotion! Lol.)
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I have to admit that is an AMAZING book...and it is the thought that after every hardship something better comes along, even though at the time you are going through it you never believe you will not only get out of it, something better is waiting.
I think people who have fairytale endings such as the author put themselves out there, so that it can happen. I dont think many people really think about how many other people are out there in all the different countries. Finding love doesnt always have to happen locally.
Ahh I dont believe in that stuff anymore! It's all in the mind.
I had one. It's a long-distance relationship that spans two states, 400 miles, and a year and a half before we even physically met. (I now live with him.) Really want to hear it? :P
I'm reading that book! It's really awesome.
i think sometimes fairy tales are about putting the ending in the right place (for example, if her new husband dies a year from now...no longer a fairy tale). things can't last forever, but that doesn't make them any less wonderful while they're happening! attitude plays a part as well- if you appreciate something, it seems that much better
i feel like i have a fairy tale.... i had a long relationship in high school and college with a great guy who i just didn't want to settle down with for a variety of small reasons. after him, i went on lots of dates but hardly had any relationships, and all of my short relationships were sub par, culminating in one that was almost emotionally abusive. after that guy, i was really disheartened, and i began to wonder if i'd ever find "the one". nobody i had met or dated seemed better than my first guy, and i was terrified i made a hug mistake all those years ago (five years now). i was sure settling was in my future...
but exactly two months after i broke up with the horrible guy, i met the man of my dreams! he's literally everything i ever wanted in a guy- smart, sexy, honest and caring- and he's crazy about me, too! it's only been three months, but i'm so glad to have him in my life. no matter how the story ends, it's a fairy tale right now
@raedium@xanga - yes, tell! tell it!
I've read that book! :)) Never knew though that they'll make it into a movie...
Cool look forward to the movie version. Not much of a romance reader, but love romance movies heh. My life hasn't been a fairy tale, but you never know usually in those fairy tales they start off kinda horrific and end nicely. I'm hoping for that happy ending.
hopefully it isn't another fantasy hoax story like that old couple on oprah who said that they met at a concentration nazi camp or something or that other guy, james frey, who confessed to lying about his story. long distance relationships that work out don't really surprise me as anything out of the ordinary these technologically driven days. meeting your s.o. while a ship capsizes like in the Titanic movie, is rare and romantic. that would be one in a billion. that is my dream fairytale.
That sounds like a great book; I should look into it! I love me a good romance. :) And Julia Roberts and Javier Bardem! So looking forward to that! I'll post my fairy tale on my blog soon. :)
sad, sad.
I have not read the book but I will borrow it from the library this
week. Sounds pretty cool from what you guys say but let me just share
my story.
From day one my heart has always been broken by
guys. They might be really obsessed with me in the beginning and
treated me like a princess and like their world was gonna end without
having me but wow, they always end up leaving me, tore apart, screwed,
like for real screwed over, they cheated on me, they played with my
feelings for the s*** of it, left me with no warning, I was raped,
violated, or sometimes its just this s*** life, it wanted to see me
dead. So, as that kept happening I then began to think that this life
or love is not real but before that belief, I was always this girl who
had high hopes for love and never stopped praying for it to happen, I
believed in love strongly, in God, I went to church every sunday,
literally, there was no sunday I missed. LOL I believed one day i'll
meet the right one, that someone will love me for me, for who I am. But
that day seemed like its never gonna come, I kept giving people chances
but they just always seem to hurt me, I almost thought I was one of
those Princess who turns Princes into frogs like for real. Then one day
I was done, I stopped believing love was real, I even stopped believing
in God, parties became my church. I became bitter. I hated everyone,
specially guys. I hated girls almost how much I hated boys for being
supid. I hated people that are in love, I said watch one day they'll
end up crying to me and I will just laugh at them because I have warned
them. I witnessed love fail, die. Every marriage I seem to have known
was a failure including my parents, my sister, and other family members
or if they were not divorced they seemed to be unhappy. So I told
myself that I will not be in that same position. I was beautiful,
successful, and heartless.
Till the day I met the guy that changed everything. I met him through the weirdest place on earth. Myspace. Yes, myspace.


But the moment I have spoke to him I knew something was different. He
emailed me saying "Hi my name is John. It seems you don't have faith in
guys." After that one email, messages were back and forth like crazy.
It was magical. It was almost like God spoke to me saying "Son, your
suffering is over." That I need to come back in believing. From that
moment on, I automatically did.
This guy lives 30 minutes away from
me. Not that far, but we took our time to get to know each other enough
on the net. We had legitimate conversations, myspace profiles, and
pictures. We weren't fakes. I have to say we're both good looking,
beautiful people that had real myspace pictures. The night came when we
met up, at my house, LOL and then BAM! We clicked like a camera when it
flashes. Its amazing.
Its already been almost a year since that day and things have gotten
better and better. Don't worry though because we are just like any
other relationships, we go through phases, we fight, we get irritated,
we go through crap, we've been through hard s*** and I mean hard but
listen to your heart, to your intuition, I did, I do specially on hard
times and all I can hear is "yo, yo, yo! your love is real for him, so
as his, don't let this s*** life turn you down." I just know in my
heart, I really know its him, Im gonna be with this man every waking
moment of my life. I am willingly wanting to. This world can throw crap
at us but guess what it's worth fighting for because there's real love
and real love doesn't happen all the time.
Let me give you a little insight about him, he is a normal guy with a
normal heart that wants to see love not fail, a man that has been
through a lot of heartache, once loved and hurt, have hurt other
people, have made mistakes in life, a man that needed to know there is
hope out there, there is love out there that is for you, just for you
and no one elses. A man that is just like me, that is why I could say
and I know he is my other half.
We relate, our beliefs, hobbies
(writing poems, drinking beer), music, life experiences, feelings,
personality (lowkey nerd, highkey sexy JK), we could be bad but we are
really good people and its very important that you meet someone that is
experienced in love, that has gotten through crap in this life because
they are more likely to appreciate life and love. But don't forget even
when youre inlove, life will not stop throwing s*** at you, so be
prepared.
You
might not even read this because its as long as your moms chore list
but thank you for asking, I got to write down my real feelings and it
reminded me of how blessed I am no matter what I have gotten through.
Listen to Miracle by Paramore. My favorite. Thats basically what I feel for him.
my relationship is definitely a fairy tale. more so than the author's, because atleast i didn't get divorced yet. i was just down in the dumps cuz i saw myself as a great person and i didn't understand why i couldn't find the right guy. the guy i wanted to be with, my mom didn't approve. it was like i had an evil stepmother. the guy i thought would be right, turned out to be wrong. i was crying every day & i saw all these superficial girls get steady boyfriends whereas i couldn't even keep a guy for a year.
finally, i met my current bf. i was metaphorically "crying in the street in the pouring rain when he came with an umbrella to shield me." i didn't want to go initially. but when i finally let myself fall, i went to heaven. life has been so great with him every day that every day, i'm amazed that we're together & i always appreciate being with him. holding hands is so precious. his arms around me is so memorable. etc etc we've been together for 5 years. my longest & his longest yet.