Fairytale vs. Reality: love

This year I went to meet Santa for what seems like the fifteen millionth time, although this time

instead of it being at Macy's Santaland, I visited him right in the wonderful Magic Kingdom, one night that I was going to Mickey's Very Merry Christmas Party!! Now you might be wondering what this has to do with the topic of love? Well, let me be the one to explain. You see for a little while before meeting Santa, I had an ongoing joke with all of my friends saying that the one thing I'll be asking for this Christmas is a husband, of course when the time came I didn't actually ask for that, however, I did ask for a prince!

I know it sounds silly, asking for something as fictional as a prince, however, I felt that it was just right considering the fact that we were in the most magical place on Earth, where princes do exist, and also just drawing back to all the different Christmas movies I've watched. I must say, out of all the different girly, rom-com movies I've seen, I think Christmas rom-coms might be my favorite. Even though most of them have the same type of layout. The girl travels, there's a magical person that controls the whole outcome, guy meets girl in some unusual way, the guy falls for the girl, the girl falls for the guy, and you know the rest.

Now onto what happens in real life, in real life nine times out of ten, if something from a rom-com happens you either have people mad at you, or think you're weird, and well the point is YOU DONT ALWAYS GET THE GUY!! With that being said love is hard, it's not easy, it doesn't really happen the way it does within the fairytales, should that ever happen to you, however, congratulations you are one of the few, as for the rest of us the story goes more like this...

(this is normally the part where you go once upon a time, but since we're talking about real-life well just skip that part) You walk into some sort of place, could be a bar, a coffee shop, a gym, whatever, and then you see that person you think is perfect, however, you make a fool of yourself and it turns the person off, or they're a total douche and completely laugh at you. You proceed to try and fix it by joking about it, but instead, it makes them feel weird and uncomfortable. (Now in a fairytale this is either the part where your best friend tries to save you or the real love interest comes in to save the day, but this is not a fairytale so you most likely go home rant about it and try again the next day only to have it repeat over and over again.)

Do I even know what love is, or how to fall in love, or even how to get the guy to fall in love with me, clearly not if I'm the one asking Santa for the advice, but what I can tell you is that Santa did indeed know what love is and how to do it right. What he told me that day what short but simple. He told me that to get the person, not to go with some of the most cliche things like a movie date because its too dark and you can't get to know each other. He said to go with something like a coffee date, and that it was how he fell in love with Mrs. Clause. Now you see, Santa and Mrs. Clause were one of those few to have a fairytale start and end. Meeting in a coffee shop, which then turned into a conversation, which turned into giggles, and well you know the rest.

So maybe fairytales are right, maybe things do happen just like they do within the movies, maybe you just have to wait for the right person to make fiction become a reality. Well, one thing I do know is I'm still waiting for that prince, and when I do find them, I'll most likely ask them out for coffee and see how it goes!!