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Fitting Cinderella’s Shoe

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 Fitting Cinderellas ShoeBy  Sherry Pasquarello,WWH/CJE -

The original fairy tales are gruesome and pitiless at times. I read them years ago and have them on my bookshelves still. I remember the first time I read Cinderella in it’s true form. I cringed a bit when I found that her stepsisters cut off parts of their feet to fit into her shoe.

That part came back to me as I was thinking over how I wanted to write this.

How many times over the years have we allowed others to cut pieces from us to better fit how they thought we should be? Worse, how many times have we carved off bits of ourselves to fit some idea we bought into? I know I have. For many years I did with some very bad results. I’m older now and still learning to be me.

None of us are just one thing. We are many. None of us can fit into a life meant for another person even if we live similar lives and champion the same ideals. We buy into or fight against stereotypes all the time. We have labels slapped on us if not stapled or superglued!

HELLO MY NAME IS… I AM A… which leads to being expected to dress, talk, act as expected. There are some hippie folk that do the very same thing. Not all of us wear tie-dye even if we hold it fondly in our hearts and maybe in the back of our closets. Image is not always truth. Hippie is in the heart.

But, I’m starting to loop around my original premise here. I do that often. It’s one of the reasons I’m not good using TWITTER. I can’t and frankly, I don’t want to pare down my thoughts to fit TWITTER’S shoe.

Back to labels. Back to those little nasty boxes we or they, with our permission, cram our spirits into. Even though then never fit. If we are lucky some of it will seep out of badly built boxes but some are airtight and the spark dies. It dies an ugly slow death. I’ve seen it. You’ve seen it too. You know that you have. Even if that box feels like home and that label assures you that you are someone, in time, you can’t ignore the person you were meant to be.

Make sure that your shoe fits you. In fact make sure that you have more than one style and step out into YOUR life. Maybe even dance a few steps on your path.

And tear those labels into itty bitty bits while you do.

Read More Pittsburgh in the 60′s by Sherry Pasquarello.

Sherry  Fitting Cinderellas ShoeSherry Pasquarello is an eclectic little woman who has been published in the Individualist Newsletter, Black Roses, online at the Amateur Poetry Journal and the Alchemy lit. mag, and elsewhere. Sherry is a member of the international PK poetry kit list workshop and has been included in many of their projects. For more about Sherry check out her blog After the Bridge.


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