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Fairy Tale Love What is love? Webster’s defines it as: attraction based on sexual desire, enthusiasm or fondness. In my mind that does not encompass all that goes along with the word love. Growing up I was constantly exposed to stories about love, romance and happy endings. I was taught by fairy tale’s that love was a completely different world. One that you fell into and remained in eternal bliss. This idea I formed has proven to be disastrous in my life, teaching me to live in a dreamland and not grasp the reality that the love displayed by fairy tales does not exist. Love is not a three-step program: I like him, I marry him, and we live happily ever after. There is much more involved in the process. It is not something you stumble into like a hole in the ground, as fairy tales would have you believe. I may say this because I have never experienced it this way, but I do not understand how someone can unknowingly slip into such a huge emotional state without any activity on their part. These tale’s teach us that love is a passive process, if you sit around singing into a well that someday your prince will come, or lay sleeping for 100 years with your lips puckered up, you’ll meet the man of your dreams. And