Be Cinderella

“Dare if you want to. Don’t fear you’ll fall. Take a chance cause its better than never to chance it at all” Cinderella II

Being rescued by a charming and handsome knight and live happily ever after!!! It’s every girl’s dream to have a Cinderella story and indeed they do, just need to zoom in and change the perspective.

Right from birth, a girl is a princess for her father, her brother which changes once she gets married to a gentleman who is her knight in his own way. But I strongly feel that this fairy tale is not only about attaining the happiness of romance however having faith and confidence in you to reach your dreams.

The first and foremost is having confidence in yourself to dream and dream big and high up to the potential you can see and yes sure beyond that as well. This enthusiasm of seeing beyond the horizon itself covers half your path. Today people even fear to dream. Inner happiness scares them as that will make them follow path which their peers, parents, friends and family has abandoned. They will join meditation courses; will take trips for few weeks to ashrams but this all goes in vain once back to their lives. Cinderella was a story of this poor girl who dreamed to voice out that her true love will come no matter what. So this was a thought that you can dream anything and having faith in that will make it come true. This was precisely what happened in the end. There is a beautiful quote by Rumi..

 “If light is in your heart, you will find your way home”

Which means illumination in your heart makes you reach the place you call home…. Beautiful isn’t it. It blows me every time I read this.

By definition word “Cinderella” means ----- a person who reaches success even after having rigorous hardship. If you were unsuccessful once does not mean that you have failed rather it means that you have not won yet. Every chance you receive is an opportunity to do your best and just keep doing that.

We have so many live examples in front of us instead of this fairy tale like Dalia Lama, Mahatma Gandhi, Martin Luther King Jr, Nelson Mandela, Benazir Bhutoo, Malala Yousafzai and the list goes on. Although these people gave up their lives for dreams of much bigger cause but we can extract so much of learning’s and faith from these legends.

Faith is a very subjective word; it can be on a concept, on a thought, on a person, on a saint or even on a book. Today we are having world wars because a single person’s faith is not being recognized worldwide. Having faith in a dream of someone who wants power creates destruction however on the other hand having faith in someone with a message of peace creates harmony. There is a very fine line difference when it comes to following a person. So whenever you are on that path, open your heart and your eyes to understand the difference.

The whole purpose of this blog is to make you all and me realize that always we know the difference between the right and wrong doings. We need to have faith and confidence in us and follow the path of happiness and peace. We do not need war but we do need love.

Be Cinderella for yourself and people around.