Do you have Cinderella Syndrome or symptoms, Tammie is here to tell you that it isn’t a bad thing, it just means you have dreams that are waiting to be freed. “You can do it! Just believe!” go out there and make your life happen, because you aren’t a victim, unless you chose to be. Cinderella did it, so can you!
Cinderella-1950 (the cartoon), Cinderella-1965 with Lesley Ann Warren (Cinderella) and Ginger Rogers (queen), Cinderella-1997 with Brandy Norwood (Cinderella) and Whitney Houston (fairy godmother), The Glass Slipper (ballet movie) in 1955 with Leslie Caron (Cinderella) and Michael Wilding (Prince Charming). We can’t forget Ever After – A Cinderella Story-1998 staring Drew Barrymoore (Danielle) and Anjelica Huston (stepmother). Then there is of course the modern versions of the Cinderella stories written; A Cinderella Story- 2004 with Hilary Duff (Sam) and Jennifer Coolidge (evil stepmom), or Another Cinderella Story (musical 2008) staring Selena Gomez (Mary) and Drew Seeley (Joey). Just to name a few of the movies along the same story line all have one thing in common. The girl gets out! But how? She wasn’t rescued…or was she and by whom?
My mom has always said that I was a dreamer…teased me of being “Cinderella” while growing up and now looking back over my adult life said that I had “Cinderella Syndrome” and this to me seemed to be a bad thing. She said that I was looking for a rescuer. I never fully understood what I was looking for but knew that it wasn’t rescuing. If I wanted to be rescued I would have married a millionaire and got out of Dodge a long time ago. No I didn’t know how to explain my thinking or dreaming because I didn’t fully understand why I was drawn to these types of stories? This article is my uh huh moment explained…
You see we, women, aren’t looking to be “rescued” we are just looking for a way out, a better life than the one we have. Until now, I didn’t get it. I just agreed with others about what Cinderella represented and never really tried to explain why I “got her”. I just knew that I couldn’t let others know that I watched ALL of the shows like this because I felt they would say I was weird, messed up or immature. But I was actually looking for a “key”. The part of the story that is never told. So here is my side of the Cinderella story.
Cinderella is strong; emotionally, mentally, physically and spiritually. She had to be because she lived in this tough reality. She didn’t like her situation (watch the movies and see what I mean). She is always struggling to find a way out of that life into a better one. Whitney says it best in Cinderella-1997 when she visits Cinderella before the Ball;
Cinderella (Brandy) says, “I have always hoped someone would come and take me away from here”.
Fairy godmother replies, “Cinderella, If you want to get away from here, you are going to have to do it yourself. The music is in you. When you find it, nothing is going to keep you from walking out that door.”
See… the music, wish, desire, dream whatever you want to call it is inside each of us to have a better life than what we have right now. It starts with one person, me. No one is stopping me from getting what I want, going where I want to go, or doing what I want to do but myself. Sounding familiar?
Cinderella just needed one person to help her see herself for who she really was and to say “You can do it. Just believe!” and the rest was up to her. She goes to the ball, meets the prince, dances, he falls in love with her and then she disappears-keeps the prince wanting her, smart woman. The kingdom is turned upside down trying to find her, she gets found and moves ahead in her life. She was always in control of her life and the outcome. She created the life she was living. She used the “law of attraction” and “law of manifestion” to get her reality changed for the better.
So if you have Cinderella Syndrome or symptoms, I am here to tell you that it isn’t a bad thing, it just means you have dreams that are waiting to be freed. “You can do it! Just believe!” go out there and make your life happen, because you aren’t a victim, unless you chose to be. Cinderella did it, so can you!
You are worthy and deserve all that you desire and dream. Now it is time to achieve those things, because you are the only one that can make that happen. You have made your bed, now you must lie in it. If you don’t like what it is made of, change the sheets!
As a freelance writer Tammie has published short stories, written news article, historical and community research/writer and this past year learned what it is to be a ghost writer for a travel writer working on a big web-based project here in British Columbia.
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