Fairy Tales Can Come True

Jimmy Durante - Young at Heart

Fairy tales can come true –
It can happen to you
If you’re young at heart.
For it’s hard, you will find,
To be narrow of mind
If you’re young at heart.
You can go to extremes
With impossible schemes;
You can laugh when your dreams
Fall apart at the seams;
And life becomes exciting with each passing day,
And love is either in your heart… or on its way.
Don’t you know that it’s worth
Every treasure on earth
To be young at heart?
For, as rich as you are,
It’s much better by far
To be young at heart.

And, if you should survive
To a hundred and five,
Look at all you’ll derive
Just by being alive!
Now, here is the best part:
You have a head start
If you are amongst the very young…
At heart.

I have a fairy tale to tell. It hasn’t ended yet, which may be why it is a fairy tale. If I knew the ending maybe it would lose that ethereal quality and be just another story about lost love. But for now… I have wings.

Have you ever experienced love? I don’t mean the wonderful unexplainable kind that you feel the first time you hold your new born child, I don’t mean the kind you have for that most special friend in the world or even the kind you might experience when you meet someone and believe that will be the person you will spend the rest of your life with. Those are all really extraordinary and you know that nothing else will ever be like those loves. But I am talking about loving someone so much that years later you are still in love, in fact more in love than when you met, because that person completes you and makes your heart sing. You have found a true soul mate, your other half, the one person without which you would cease to be who you are. I’m talking about the kind of love that fairy tales are written about. It’s the kind of love you feel your heart will burst from if you love any more. Or die from if you lose it.

This kind of love grows on its own. You don’t have to understand it. You don’t have to work at it. You sit back and look at it and all of a sudden “POOF” it has happened. And you both know it. You know that the person of your affections has become your breath of life.

I have loved someone for many years, but somehow it just never worked out for us. It has been such a tumultuous relationship that there were times we both believed we would never see the other person again. We went through a full year of not speaking. We have a history of friendship, of being lovers, of anger, of fear, of awe, and of falling in love. These things were repetitious, not just a onetime deal. We have run the gamut. I’m sure his friends and family feel the same as mine do, they like me alright, but why are you still around after more than 10 years of this? My fault? His fault? Does it matter? In the end all that will matter is if we make it to the end!