{"id":622,"date":"2015-04-09T15:30:13","date_gmt":"2015-04-09T15:30:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/howgreatthoupart\/?p=622"},"modified":"2015-04-09T15:30:13","modified_gmt":"2015-04-09T15:30:13","slug":"are-you-ready-for-a-new-fairy-tale","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/howgreatthoupart\/2015\/04\/are-you-ready-for-a-new-fairy-tale.html","title":{"rendered":"Are You Ready for a New Fairy Tale?"},"content":{"rendered":"

Any one who knows me will tell you that I have always been a cup is half full kinda girl. They will also tell you that my cup went from ‘runneth over’ to spilled, dumped, evaporated or a liquid ‘desert.’<\/p>\n

I went from emotionally hydrated to emotionally dehydrated.<\/p>\n

It has taken me a long time to let go of my ‘old’ fairy tale. <\/p>\n

I am letting it go much like the balloons that flew towards the sky celebrating beginnings on my wedding day. I am symbolically allowing the strings to slip through my fingers of the emotional, imaginary balloons that signify endings.<\/p>\n

I will admit, as I sit in my favorite coffee shop (Katie’s) and type these words that the lump in my throat is bubbling up towards that same sky. I will also divulge that while I break for a sip of my decaf coffee, the tears in my eyes (what appears to have remained the only hydrated part of my body) are peeking through.<\/p>\n

Hans C. Anderson once said, “Life itself is the most wonderful fairy tale.” <\/p>\n

The cup is half full kinda girl in me still believes that. I just need to pick my cup back up and refill it. <\/p>\n

There will be new fairy tales.<\/p>\n

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