Someone said there would be a prince...

 not the artist formerly known as Prince, or Prince, I'm not really sure what his name is now.

I think Walt Disney told me there would be a prince when I was about 5, that all I really had to do was give up my voice, or take a really long nap and he would show up. Well I suppose with enough valuim, I could make it feel like no time had passed at all and I had just been asleep waiting...FAT FUCKING CHANCE I WOULD EVER DO THAT I GOTTA GET OUT THERE, MOVE AROUND.

That being said I don't need no knights in shining armor on their little ponies, I brought my own horse, and I don't ride this thing side saddle. I've been thinking about independence as a woman lately. ONLY because my youngest sister is OBSESSED with romance. Everything is about romance, about finding "the one". I can't actually make fun of her too much because I feel like at that age I probably felt similar. I think it was more the idea that I could escape with "the one" that we would disappear to a far way place where nothing in my boring little life existed. I found out a few years later that I didn't need someone to swoop me up, and take me away from everything, that I could swoop myself up and get on a train alone, and head out to the "lonesome crowded west". That I could work two maybe three jobs, put myself though school, find an odd love of textile art in various forms, have a career and then walk away from it only to start the process again.

When I was 13 I read the series "Dealing with Dragons" the main character is a princess who runs away from her wedding and lives with a female dragon. Different princes attempt to come save her so they can win her hand in marriage. She always brushes them off and if I remember right typically saves their ass (no prince needed) I think when I look at my formable, need a prince, don't need a prince years, reading those books (no joke 14 times) really drove the idea home that I absolutely didn't need a god damn "prince" to do shit for me, and the chances of finding one that wouldn't need me to save them pretty slim.
Truth be told I don't need a man to buy me diamonds, I can and do buy my own damn diamonds. Really every man has disappointed me in relationships. I could go though their blunders and mine, but we would need more time.

I want my sisters to grow up knowing that if they have a dream they should follow it, to never let a partner, or anyone for that matter hold you back. If I had listened to everyone tell me no my whole life, I would be living in Wisconsin doing nothing.

I hope so much that she is more similar to me than she puts on and that it is not the appeal of a man, but the appeal of adventure that drives her. You can get a man anywhere, but an adventure, well sometimes, you need to get on a airplane, train, car, bus, bicycle, motorcycle, or your own two feet, to have one of those, and sometimes I feel like if you settle down you don't get to have those adventures, that you give the adventure a little bit for something a little different like a house. I for one am not exactly ready to give up my adventurer status. At the same time I suppose if one is talking about adventures and partners that you try to find one that is just as up or down for the same adventures as you are.