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Why don’t children understand their future prince? Why don\u2019t adults tell you that you will never meet your prince charming in a park and that everything will change? And when you become a teenager everything will be different. You open your eyes and everything is changed, you feel like the world is upside-down like the feeling of embarrassment and weirdness when the teacher asks you a question, and you don\u2019t know the answer. At that moment, you feel like you are a teen. And you are, but the weirdness and unclarity underneath you puts you right back in your childhood body.\u00a0<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n Some days, you might say something so childish, and that\u2019s a part of you. You couldn\u2019t get rid of it. I wish I could take it off as I would with my coat after a rainy day. Some nights, you hide on your parent\u2019s blanket when it is thundering outside. Other times, you cry like a hungry baby when you fail a test. But that\u2019s just part of your childhood, and you as well. This is the thing people never explain, it is okay to be childish because it\u2019s who you are.\u00a0<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n Back in the old days, when I wasn\u2019t a teenage girl, my brain was filled with childish thoughts that caused many conflicts in my life. Today, I find myself wishing I was a baby instead of being a teen. This is because if I was a child, it would be okay fantasizing about meeting my prince charming. I\u2019ve always thought that I would meet my prince charming in the most advent possible like Sleeping Beauty and other fairy tales. For example: Walking my dog in the park even though I don’t have a dog. Maybe exercising at the gym, even though I haven’t renewed my membership in 2 years. Or at least a more realistic one like at the bank while I was held hostage in an armed robbery. He could be one of the robbers of course because\u2026why not?\u00a0<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n We all had these fantasies about meeting the perfect person for us, especially as<\/span> But as time passes and we feel more and more lonely as teenagers, we start to slightly adjust our criteria to be less demanding as we\u2019re smashed by reality. “Knows how to cook” becomes “Likes to eat what I like”, “Takes care of themselves ” becomes “Rather less gross than me”, and ” Hasn’t been to jail” becomes “At least manslaughter isn’t deliberate!\u201d says 14-year-old me.\u00a0<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n The funny thing is that no matter how much we adjust our criteria, we will never be satisfied because we deserve better\u2026or so we think. We deserve the best humanity has to offer and obviously it has to be free. Sadly most of us don’t get the best the world has to offer. Instead, we get the “it\u2019s better than nothing” mindset and we learn how to compromise. It\u2019s normal. No offense to anyone. But we end up with the guy that has a steady job but is as fat as Coca-Cola can. The gorgeous girl with green eyes and blonde hair but stupid as a rock. And that kind of disturbing person that you hope and pray is not a serial killer, even though some part of you knows that he is.\u00a0<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n \u201cI am a teen, I am a teen, I have grown up and I have to be mature. ” I tell myself every night before sleeping. That\u2019s why for these reasons, I decided to stop looking for my future prince charming; Because we all deserve better. I’m skipping all this process and decided to live my life focusing only on my happiness and my future. Mainly, I will not, and never care about other people\u2019s opinions, even though a part of me knows that it\u2019s impossible. But at least, I\u2019ll try.\u00a0<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n Today I am a teen, and I regret it. I wished I was a child so this mistake won\u2019t matter. Inside me, there is a child who still believes that I might meet my prince charming in a castle. Inside me, I\u2019m still hopeful that there I will randomly forget a shoe on a prom in order for the \u201cfuture prince charming\u201d to look for me in a Cinderella fantasy.\u00a0<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n To finish my story, which has passed in glory, I thought my story was guilty. But in fact, it is nasty. It mostly shows how no matter how strong and independent I want to be, there will always be a child in me, wishing to live through the magical words we read about that never grow elderly. Never worry about your prince charming Lori or Kourtney. Because trust me you will end up waiting until you have white hair worrying about who is your prince thorny.<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Why don’t children understand their future prince? 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\nchildren when we start creating our own list of criteria they need to have. \u201cKnows how to cook, takes care of themselves, hasn’t been to jail, has blue bright eyes like the sky, smooth hair as silk, tall as a giraffe, skin as soft as butter\u201d 6-year-old me says, and all of my friends agreeing and writing their own list of criteria on their \u201cprivate\/secret journal\u201d even though that was just our math notebook.\u00a0<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n