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Fairytales are so exciting. There are endless possibilities. You can imagine whatever you want.
It’s funny how, as we get older, we still tell ourselves fairytales every day.
Maybe your friend is dreaming up their fairytale partner.
Maybe your partner is dreaming of their fairytale job.
Fantasy feels good. It lifts us. It gives us something to reach for.
But sometimes it also feeds on us.
Because when we live in the fairytale, we do not have to sit with what is real.
And maybe that is why so many of us run from the things that are actually meant for us. Reality is not a fairytale.
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Real work, real people, real relationships force us to face a disappointing truth. Not everything and everyone can meet our every need or check every box. And that is not an accident. It is by design.
If everything were perfect, we would never have to meet the parts of ourselves that feel empty, unfinished, or hurt.
We would get lost in the distraction.
We would never feel the pull to go inward.
And slowly, the fantasy becomes a quiet parasite.
It keeps us searching.
Keeps us comparing.
Keeps us slightly dissatisfied.
All while the real thing sits in front of us asking to be chosen.
But when you stop feeding the fairytale, something shifts.
You stop looking for perfection outside of you.
You start strengthening what feels incomplete within you.
And that is when the emptiness begins to close.
Because the only thing that is perfect
is not the partner,
not the job,
not the storyline.
It is the Source you return to
when you stop escaping.
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XO,
Gabi and Bea