of pixies, little men and stardust!

Life is not a fairy tale…..but think of it this way….what if it was? I’d be ‘Tinkerbell’, Peter Pan’s sidekick or little ‘Thumbelina’, on all her adventures or ‘Cinderella’, who gets carried off by her prince……life would have been so much easier. But again we are still forgetting facts….Even in far-far away, there is still a villain- a ‘Captain Hook’ or an ‘Ugly Toad’ or an Evil Stepmother’. What I’m really getting at is that each time I read one of these fairy tales, I sit there and wish that all that would happen to me-‘that my knight in shining armour will ride on his steed and whisk me away’.
So whether we like to accept it or not… the fairy world is not very different from the real world! The only visible difference is that all the endings are happy.
Maybe I’ll take it on me to write a fairy tale that does not have a happy ending but still has all the elements that a fairy tale needs.
But then the question arises… or rather the answer hits me before I can formulate the question- it’s not a fairy tale if it doesn’t have a ‘happy ending’! It becomes life… real life and who wants to read something that hits them on the face with the reality they don’t want to accept?