Grandma You Are 1st

Let’s Blame 3 People for the Heart-Break Café (I)

 by Moffat Machingura

With all due respect, Granny – your Cinderella bedtime story was not all true. You said she was a poor neglected girl who met a Prince Charming at a ballroom dance. You said they lived happily ever after.

 Yet Granny, you never said it that Princes are few in this world, and that Cinderellas are many.  Many Cinderrelas are waiting, but will they ever find? Grandma, tell the truth!

You never explained Prince Charming is a womanizer. He is a type of man who is always busy looking charming to all women around him. Though He be mine, he won’t be mine alone. If I find him, is it love or just another heartbreak café?

 And what if there is no fairy god-mother anywhere? (As it is) So the really pretty and descent women in town hardly make it to the ballroom. Is it not that the pretty manicured ladies (vice-full beauty fanatics as you called them) are busy looking good right now, just to take my Prince Charming away?

Finally Grandma, you said they lived happily ever after. But on my wedding morning, you said “happily ever after, is only found in fairy tales.” You said for love to work and last, we have to work hard and be patient. That is true, I learnt it in love that real love demands effort. But Granny, why did you not say so from the beginning? My best friend, Anna, walked out a few months back. She said it was not meant to be, she was not happy and she was tired of it. One more thing, she said it is not what she dreamt. The love she found is not the love she vowed for in her wedding gown.

Grandma, I know you are wise. I know you spoke of love so nicely because you know it is worth it. All I am saying is, you have much to explain. For every folktale, every love bruise and smile that you found and shared, grandma you have much to explain.