Blog 259 – 03.28.2016

In Walt Disney’s classic and first ever full length animated movie, Snow White (No relation) the lovely heroine (Isn’t that dope?) sings the song Some Day My Prince Will Come. I often start my blogs with a title and then write the piece to go with it. The other way, article first and then a title, is so done. 🙂 I still like the old school smiley face instead of the newer ones which have been superseded by the Emots. I really am old school, I still believe words properly chosen are a better way to communicate than acronyms like LOL and OMG or HAY. I just made that last one up for “How Are You?” Which people say but not really wanting to hear a long list of your aches and pains or all of the dramas and traumas in your life. What they really mean is “Hi, I really hope you’re doing fine, really.”

But back to Snow’s song that has helped perpetuate what I believe to be a myth or at least a big misunderstanding about Who and Whose we truly are. We are all in relationship from probably before our birth royalty. The often misunderstood “divine right of kings” is in some points spot on. The heir of a king is a prince or princess. And we are all, and everyone of us, a child of the King.

Snow is singing about a particular prince and here I think comes the rub. We have been taught to believe there is a “better half”, “a soul mate” out there waiting to fulfill us, complete us as if we were born incomplete or lacking in some way. If there is a better half or a soul mate it is your higher self. You do not even need to believe in God to believe in a higher, best you. Sometimes I am afraid believing in another even God hinders us from discovering who we truly are.

In the melancholy song from the sixties a young girls sings, “You want to marry me … I’ll never learn to be just me first by myself.” Many of us married young, and then married again quickly, again and again in some cases and never got to be “just me first by myself.” If you don’t know who you are how can you know how you want to spend your life or with whom? It is easy to believe your prince or princess will come. But the odds are about the same as winning the lottery. Your best bet is to “go inside.” It might surprise you to find that what you have been looking for in all the wrong places and faces has been really you all along.

I am glad that “The artist formerly known as Prince” can call himself Prince again but if you are looking for any man or woman to “fill the bill”or be your “all in all” you are going to be disappointed. Even in the Bible story the “help meet” was fashioned out of something taken out of the sleepng one. Some think that sleeping man is still sleeping and that all this is just a dream from which he and we will all awake one day. Perhaps then we will realize that it is not Snow White but the Prince who is asleep in each of us awaiting a wake up kiss that only we can provide.

Your friend and fellow traveler,
David White