I loved "Enchanted", the new Disney movie where princess Giselle is banished from fairytale land and thrown into present day New York City. It's a funny, musical, look at how someone can adapt and thrive--even under the most unfamiliar circumstances.
It makes me think about all the different times I've been thrown into a strange land--a strange situation and been as clueless and scared as Giselle was when she encountered her first rude NYC cabbie. There was the time a hospital sent me home with a four day old baby. What were they thinking? Or when I started a job that I had embellished my resume a little bit to get. I was kind of familiar with the Excel program, well I had used it before, well...I had heard of it before.
But, most recently I've been thrown from the fairytale land of little kids playing cute sports and no one caring who wins or loses into the expensive, hard to get into, high pressure, competetive world of basketball for 10 year old girls.
There are cut throat girls, grumpy loud coaches, pushy moms and a million rules. Rule #1--you better win, or kill yourself trying.
It was scary at first, but I'm adapting--I have to. One of the most important people in my life thinks it is very important, so I do too.
I'll keep going to all the games, practices, scrimmages (I just found out what that meant) and tournaments and before you know it I'll be just like Giselle singing her way through Central park with a following of kind people and even kinder animals. Soon I will be happier now that I am here then I was before I landed in this strange land.
K
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