Fairy Tale Spotlight: The Curse

I'm a weirdo who can be inspired by anything. Today, I am sick. Nothing more serious than a rather ambitious allergy attack. It's still giving me a lot of trouble though. But I was thinking about how illnesses and various other afflictions happen within fairy tales in the form of curses.

The first one that comes to mind was the sleeping curse from the various "Sleeping Beauty" stories. Can you even imagine falling asleep and not being able to wake up? Would you dream? Would you be aware? Would it be miserable? Or would it simply be a blank? It could be any of those things.

A curse is a rather horrible type of illness. It's the worst kind. It's magical nature means that no doctor can formulate a cure. The evil at the heart of the curse needs to be counteracted. Demonic entities within these fairy tales love seeing the ones whom they hate suffer. It takes a hero to go up against this sort of thing. Not for me, understand. I just need time. Time to get over this crud. But sometimes I'd like to fantasize about being wrapped up in a world far more exciting. Or... maybe this world really does exist.

Sickness in this world is still likely a curse--a very old one. It was caused but evil entities that were willing to risk the universe for their own egos. Unlike the fairy tales, this one did not end so well. Among other things, we all just started getting sick occasionally. During this time, we slowed down and were not able to perform as well as we like. It is something we all sort of just accepted. It became the new normal. It isn't normal though. It's wrong, and we don't deserve it.

I want you all to imagine a world that's better than this. Imagine a world where demons don't rule and just propagate horrible things upon all of us. Don't be cynical. It can be better. If enough people fight against these horrible things, the world can be a better place after all. At the very least you can decide to not be a part of the problem by denying the will of those who have cursed us.

Human beings are amazing creatures. When we like something in fiction, we work very hard to make them happen. We went to the moon. I know that doesn't seem like much now because we got real good at it. But understand that going to the moon felt so impossible at one point in time. And in many ways it was. We had to not only get out of our own atmosphere, break free of our planet's gravity, and have a reasonable plan for return, but we also had to worry about the hostile environment up there. There was not only no air but it was also a vacuum. It was not a place made for us at all. We still did it though because we were inspired by all these books and movies about going there.

Well, inspiration is good against curses too. We do have people out there whacking various diseases pretty often. Still it seems like we could be doing more. They may be finding cures, but the diseases themselves still exist. Somehow we need to find a way to get at the origin of the problem. All problems can eventually be solved by dealing with the beginning. When we figure out how to do this, we'll bring an end to this ancient curse, and it will likely take a hero to accomplish it.

Now before I bring this blog to a close, I want to make one final point as clear as I can. None of this is about fighting the good fight and continuing on. We were wronged. We should be angry about it. This is not a matter where you just keep trying and hope for the best. This is a war. If you get sick, call it out for what it is--a curse. And it needs to be destroyed.

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