And so she started to care.
She knew the dangers. And she was very thorough in her analysis of her angsty and froggish behaviours. Or so she thought.
(Read the previous story of the Princess is the Frog here)
You see she very soon found herself becoming weary of everything. Even though she had found a new activity in her everyday life that she adored, she could not stop yawning. And when she went back to her Palace, everything around her annoyed her and all she longed for was sleep. And yet, 8-9-10 hours of sleep always seemed insufficient and she was still yawning all day the next and longing for her bed at all times.
What a strange thing she thought. Everything is going amazingly well in my life, and yet, I cannot find the strength to lift a pencil in my free time. These were often her lasts thoughts before drifting off into a dreamless coma.
First she blamed the heat. The hard summer heat was beaming into her kingdom as she had rarely felt it before. But surely it wasn’t that, her that always strived to feel the sunlight on her flesh and use this as an excuse to ingurgitate a copious amount of ice cream.
So, where her new roles and activities in the Kingdom taking such a toll on her, and using up all her resources that she had nothing left to allocate? Surely not, although she loved her new found responsibilities and was happy to see her ideas were getting implemented, she also knew she was not giving it a 100%. Which, she knew was shameful.
So she pondered, like a pondering thing in a pond. Being unknowingly incredibly irritated with herself and the world.
When all of a sudden she understood what she was playing at.
Sleeping Beauty had never been her role model, but she had made her point in making her own life easy, I mean, she was
sleeping the whole time her Prince Charming was fighting off dragons and witches to get to her. And it seemed our Frog Princess was doing the same thing. Instead of continuing to strive for had she had achieved and wanted to build in her life, she was dropping everything and waiting for someone to scoop her away.
Well, surely that will not do in our modern times.
But finding the balance between turning into a frog and sleeping away the hard part of the romantic tale may prove to be her toughest challenge yet… She could not keep on either striving to get away from the path of losing his cares or losing herself.
It was time to create a new story.
XoXo – From a bed of thorns with love
