BEAUTY AND THE BEAST
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I had the privilege of watching a cartoon movie on television yesterday morning and even though this is a fairytale I've read often as a child the story took on a new meaning for me as I watched it.
As the story goes, Belle/Beauty is a beautiful damsel who is being courted by Gestund, a handsome macho man, who fits into the typical image of every young girl's ideal husband.
Beauty/Belle is a girl who is well read and loves to develop her mind but Gestund would rather have her fit into a mould and be more concerned about frivolties like other girls.
By some dint of fate, Belle is led into an enchanted castle where she is kept prisoner by The Beast who believes she has the power to break the spell that was cast on him.
The only problem is that the spell can only be broken if she falls in love with him and he has very little time to make her do so.
Of course like all the other fairytales, they end up living happily ever after.
Watching Beauty and The Beast was such a blessing to me. Unlike other fairytales which fill young girls heads with all sorts of unrealistic romantic notions, I believe Beauty and The Beast is so true to life.
I was able to draw a lot os similarities between the story and my life as well as the lives of other women I know.
It is typically every young girl's dream to marry a prince charming - handsome, fearless, respectable and veeeeerrry RICH, but in reality, how many of us girls do actually get to meet these types of guys?
I blame this idealistic fantasy for my late marriage.As I kept waiting for the elusive prince charming when all the while a 'beast' was waiting in the wings pinning for my attention. Thank God for the wise counsel of Godly parents and friends who helped me see that underneath the rough exterior lies a heart of gold. Although a heart of gold wasn't high on my list of qualities but I married the 'beast' anyway.
Mademoiselle Beauty was confined to living with The Beast against her will but she had to out of devotion for her father whose freedom from The Beast she could only secure by ransoming her own self. In her time of incarceration, she could have sulked and be bad tempered till The Beast threw her out of his castle or even destroyed her there, but instead she overcame her initial disappointments quickly and was genuinely kind and pleasant to him. Within a short while, even Belle had to admit to seeing something in him that she didn't think was there before - The Beast was beginning to soften!
He started to show some tenderness towards Belle as he fell in love with her. He even loved her so much that at great personal risk he let her go when it became necessary for her to take care of her sick father.
She later returns to him out love and right before her eyes she was able to witness his transformation into a charming prince!
When the announcement of my marriage to my dh was made, not a few people were surprised, many thought it was a desperate move on my part due to my age ( I was 37 at the time).
However, since I decided to love and honour my husband, those same friends have returned to enthused about how lucky I am to be married to such a wonderful man.
Gone are the coarse unrefrined ways, I now have on hand a kind, generous man with noble qualities not forgeting to add very handsome too.
To all the dear young ladies contemplating marriage and even the married sisters, there are so many lessons to be learnt in the story Beauty and The Beast but an important one is this....
Inside every man exists two entities: 'The Man' and 'The Beast'.
It is your responsibility to feed the one you wish to see in your man.
'The Beast' is fed with harsh words, nastiness, insults and abuse while 'The Man' is fed with kindness, respect, encouragement and all round goodness.
Its up to you ladies what would you rather live with Beast or Man?
As the story goes, Belle/Beauty is a beautiful damsel who is being courted by Gestund, a handsome macho man, who fits into the typical image of every young girl's ideal husband.
Beauty/Belle is a girl who is well read and loves to develop her mind but Gestund would rather have her fit into a mould and be more concerned about frivolties like other girls.
By some dint of fate, Belle is led into an enchanted castle where she is kept prisoner by The Beast who believes she has the power to break the spell that was cast on him.
The only problem is that the spell can only be broken if she falls in love with him and he has very little time to make her do so.
Of course like all the other fairytales, they end up living happily ever after.
Watching Beauty and The Beast was such a blessing to me. Unlike other fairytales which fill young girls heads with all sorts of unrealistic romantic notions, I believe Beauty and The Beast is so true to life.
I was able to draw a lot os similarities between the story and my life as well as the lives of other women I know.
It is typically every young girl's dream to marry a prince charming - handsome, fearless, respectable and veeeeerrry RICH, but in reality, how many of us girls do actually get to meet these types of guys?
I blame this idealistic fantasy for my late marriage.As I kept waiting for the elusive prince charming when all the while a 'beast' was waiting in the wings pinning for my attention. Thank God for the wise counsel of Godly parents and friends who helped me see that underneath the rough exterior lies a heart of gold. Although a heart of gold wasn't high on my list of qualities but I married the 'beast' anyway.
Mademoiselle Beauty was confined to living with The Beast against her will but she had to out of devotion for her father whose freedom from The Beast she could only secure by ransoming her own self. In her time of incarceration, she could have sulked and be bad tempered till The Beast threw her out of his castle or even destroyed her there, but instead she overcame her initial disappointments quickly and was genuinely kind and pleasant to him. Within a short while, even Belle had to admit to seeing something in him that she didn't think was there before - The Beast was beginning to soften!
He started to show some tenderness towards Belle as he fell in love with her. He even loved her so much that at great personal risk he let her go when it became necessary for her to take care of her sick father.
She later returns to him out love and right before her eyes she was able to witness his transformation into a charming prince!
When the announcement of my marriage to my dh was made, not a few people were surprised, many thought it was a desperate move on my part due to my age ( I was 37 at the time).
However, since I decided to love and honour my husband, those same friends have returned to enthused about how lucky I am to be married to such a wonderful man.
Gone are the coarse unrefrined ways, I now have on hand a kind, generous man with noble qualities not forgeting to add very handsome too.
To all the dear young ladies contemplating marriage and even the married sisters, there are so many lessons to be learnt in the story Beauty and The Beast but an important one is this....
Inside every man exists two entities: 'The Man' and 'The Beast'.
It is your responsibility to feed the one you wish to see in your man.
'The Beast' is fed with harsh words, nastiness, insults and abuse while 'The Man' is fed with kindness, respect, encouragement and all round goodness.
Its up to you ladies what would you rather live with Beast or Man?
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