First Place by M.K. Lim
Everybody lived to tell tale. Whether the tale would have something to be learned, or something to be followed or even something just for fun, everyone who have lived, lived to tell a tale. Whether for your tale to be important and to be passed on for generations depend on how you live your tale and recite them.
Up till today, I've lived long enough to tell a short tale. So grab a coffee, put yourself on a couch, make yourself comfortable because i am about to tell you a tale. Just a short tale that took a long time to be lived in.
A tale about a girl who's faith was restored
Not very long ago, there was a girl who did not live in a castle, nor does she have beautiful complexion or extraordinary abilities. There was just a girl, like every other. A girl that was unnoticed because she blend so well in the crowd just like a chameleon that people could not see her existence. Some see this as a curse and some see this as a fortune. No matter what others saw, the girl saw nothing.
She lived her life not by waiting for a handsome prince to save her from evil dragons or waiting for a fairy-godmother to transform her into a beautiful maiden. She plainly lived through her life enduring everyday lives and in her era, there is no longer discrimination on female so her life was pretty much a bed of roses. But everybody knows that roses that are so beautiful have thorns that will make others bleed to enhance the "red" colour of the petals. So her life was pretty much a bed of roses no doubt.
However, this part is a little similar to a fairy tale. In her life, evil villain existed. And in her case, there were more than one villain. Every little thing she knows and every person she was ever fond of have a little villain side in them. Back then, the innocent her knew nothing of that sorts. She innocently got trapped by those evil villains and they took advantage of her. A sad case for her that she had to endure all that by herself and no one other than herself could save her.
So she learned about the cruel part of life by falling and she then decided to not fall again. But little does she know that that world that she was in was merely a zest of reality. Reality is nothing like a fairytale. Reality was the evolve "species" of fairytale and in this reality, fairytale only lived in dreams and movies.
Like everyone other tale you have heard, the one true prince will appear and then save the beautiful princess from her misery. This girl was no princess. Neither does she have any prince that will rescue her. So she when she realised that fairytale could never exist, she decided to not live in her dream. She decided to learn to live in reality. She learned to be a villain herself for she have to be one to survive among all of them.
Slowly and gradually she became immune to villains because right now she is already one of them. Fairytale for her is nothing but a mere desire of weak people who could not accept reality. But she, as a non-believer in fairytale will soon face a tale of her own that she would have never expect to happen.
Little does she know, her fairytale has just started. Just when she lost all hope and faith, a prince showed up. Her prince was not like in the storybooks. He was not riding a white horse nor was he carrying a sword. He doesn't know how to fight bandits or dragons but he was her prince. That prince who appeared in her life changed every single thing. She who lost her faith was showered with light and love. Before she knew it, she began to live in her fairytale.
There were no garden to dance nor beautiful castle to visit. There were no romantic time riding horses nor singing under the rain. But there was love and care from the prince's heart, warmth from the prince's palm and tenderness in the prince's soul that melted the girl's once stoney heart. And there, her fairytale lives on.
There would probably be no happily ever after but as for now, there is a fairytale in her.
-The end-
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