Frogs and Prince Charming

"Asking nothing, leave me be. Taking everything in my stride. Don't need reason, don't need rhyme..."

As Bon Scott's voice screeched through my head phones, for some odd and remotely bizarre reason I thought of nothing more nothing less than Prince Charming and (gross) frogs.

Guess I've been running into a lot of frogs lately, so that might have been a good reason for the ocean of nonsense that followed. Well, Bon Scott was definitely a frog... 

From the time we are wee little lassies, we are taught that someday, somehow, and outta of the freaking blue; Prince Charming will come along and rescue us from whatever chaos, mayhem or plain nasty situation we might find our poor little helpless selfs in. (Damn you Disney!) As good little girls our mommas raised us to be, we should wait for that Prince Charming, to then go on and live the rest of our very tedious lives by his side.

Awesome right?! Well, I think that eventually there was a serious shortage of Prince Charming to go around, since over half of the world's population happens to be female. So to soothe the aching hearts of poor little lonely Princesses, we were kindly and moronically introduced to: The Frog! 

Basically, momma's all over the world were telling their bright eyed little angels that: "You know, sometimes Prince Charming can be hiding under the disguise of a frog!" Translation for the "read between the lines" challenged: " Look, not everybody can just have Prince Charming, but you know sometimes that beauty challenged bloke, can turn out to be the guy you're looking for, so don't close your mind, go and kiss a few frogs".  The frog community protested vehemently to being kissed, while the convention of  less than good looking guys praised whatever God they worshiped.

From then on, it was generation after generation that fell under the wicked spell of "Frog & Prince Charming" Girls spent most of their lives waiting for their Prince, and some died that way, while others kind of gave up and settled for the first frog that hopped on by. Some lucky few actually found their Prince Charming, or their Frog who turned out to be their Prince. Others on the other hand just spent the rest of their lives kissing frogs and eventually turned into one... what?! It CAN happen ok?!

Fine, I get it! Beauty is in the eye of the beer holder...oops, BEHOLDER! True that someone's Prince might just as well look like someone else's Frog, or vice a versa... it still doesn't change the fact that you are more likely to run into Frogs, just Frogs. 

Now my questions:

 1 -  Couldn't they have come up with something less disgusting as an analogy?

Seriously, FROGS??!!

2 - Why can't you just kiss? Why is it that this never ending and mostly frustrating search for Mr. Right or Prince Charming be a rule to live by? (Once again; Damn you Disney!)

Yes, I have kissed more than my fair share of Frogs, and had a few close calls with some Princes (dodged those like a pro), finally I came to the conclusion that you should just kiss, enjoy whatever you have or whoever you have for what they are. Quit trying to find your Prince, Frog or whatnot, and enjoy whatever life throws your way.

I know it's easier said than done, cause apart from frogs we might run into; dogs, cats, Bambi, snakes and a very varied assortment of creatures. I leave the endless hoping for all the Disney babies around the world.

As for me...

" Ain't nothing I would rather do. Going down, party time. My friends are gonna be there too..."