“Princess” is Distress
Once upon a time, Halloween was coming up - a day that is supposed to be filled with joy, fear, and candy - and yet, this little girl is sobbing in an Aurora dress. She seems oddly at peace as she cries, living through a dramatic mxmtoon moment (referring to “crying in my prom dress”). What’s her problem? Well, she always played princesses at recess with her best friend at the time, whose last name was Arora. Obviously, her friend acted as Aurora, and because blue was the opposite of pink in this girl’s mind and Cinderella wears blue, this girl acted as Cinderella. Due to this, she wanted to dress up as Cinderella for Halloween, but her parents bought her this costume instead. They probably had their reasons or did not know she liked Cinderella at the time, but her 4-year-old brain failed to understand, or did not think that she had to understand.
After this stage of quietly crying to herself and thinking she was facing the biggest problem in the world, anger and rebellion began to arise in her. She decided to dress up as her favorite superhero at the time: Superman. She raided her closet and put on a blue shirt and baggy blue pants. To complete the look, she put on bright pink underwear decorated with multicolored butterflies over her pants. As soon as she got the chance, she bolted out the door in this outfit that probably blinded every person she ran by. Did she know what she was doing? No. Did it feel good? Very. Her parents came running after her, yelling her name. Unfortunately, when you are approximately three feet tall, your strides are not very long. Her dad caught up to her, carried her back into their house, and told her to never do that again. What do little kids do when they are placed in a situation they don’t like? They cry. A lot. What did this girl do? She cried. A lot. If only she could wear that Cinderella costume. All of her problems would be fixed. The entire world would go back to simple bliss. So, she kept crying until her parents eventually got frustrated and hopeless and took her to Party City to get a Cinderella costume. And they all lived happily ever after.
OH MY GOD STOP THIS IS SO CUTE. I think all of us at some point have thrown a temper tantrum in the cereal aisle because our parents were making a (perfectly rational) decision that our toddler selves couldn't handle. My parents always tell me the story of when I was three and didn't get any Christmas presents (because... why would I, we're not Christian) and I BAWLED my eyes out until they went to Rite Aid on Christmas morning to buy me random things (Band-Aids, probably) to appease me. I always feel like Dudley from Harry Potter when they tell me horror stories like this...
ReplyDeleteCinderella was my all-time favorite Disney princess growing up and I remember I dressed up as her for Halloween one year! Gosh I wish I took a picture of the photo of me wearing it - I kind of looked ridiculous because I wore so many layers underneath to go trick-or-treating outside hahah. But anyway this is a cute story! We've definitely all had those moments when we were kids.
ReplyDeleteThis is so cute and definitely relatable. I like how you captured the thought process of a young kid, it really felt like it was in a kid’s POV. To be fair, halloweens we’re always stressful back then; I refused to be anything other than a princess.
ReplyDeleteAmritha, this is so good! I love how you wrote your experience as if it was a fairy tale. That was a great stylistic element. I also really liked the third person point of view that you wrote it in. Your pictures are so adorable too! Great job!
ReplyDeleteNooooo Amritha! This is way too cute and relatable, I think doing something in defiance of your parents wishes are something we can all relate to. There's something about being a kid and being bossed around all the time by our parents (even though its for our own good) that it makes us do these things lol. I acted in defiance this way once to end up breaking my leg, I shouldn't have put my parents through that. I think this is one of the steps kids make towards think through things themselves, and its a very important one.
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