I watched Enchanted on Monday together with my sis and Cindy. It was wonderful and thoroughly entertaining for me. I kept laughing on all the silly things the characters did (and having Patrick Dempsey didn’t hurt. He’s gorgeous in the movie *swoon*). I especially loved the squirrel. Funny how I love the animals in the movie (someone mentioned to me that my favorite character in The Legend of Zorro must have been the drunk horse -_-”).
Anyway, the plot itself was pretty much thought-provoking with a good healthy dose of reality. Funny how we find the concept of love in fairy tale and long for it when it is so far away from reality. True, in a certain sense Love is everlasting (God is love), and thus Love does makes the world go round. But happily ever after is a concept that is delusional at best, and impossible at worst.
Spam me if you like, but the fact is, people has so many differences they have to settle when they get married that a happy ever after can only exist in dreams. Of course we do long for a happy ever after (deep down, we do long for heaven and His glory). But really, expecting it from one’s spouse is only courting disappointment. No one is perfect. And with an imperfect spouse, what can one expect?
Certainly not to live happily ever after.
As an English Literature professor had aptly put it in words :
To love at all is to be vulnerable. Love anything, and your heart will certainly be wrung and possibly be broken. – C.S. Lewis
That does not mean that we should shun marriages as a doomed institution though. Trust me, that is not my intention at all. I only hope to bring some enlightenment that sometimes, fairy tale deceives. And a healthy slap of reality on our cheeks (like this movie) can be good from time to time.
Dedicated to : my other half out there, whom God has not reveal to me =P So that you know that I fully realize that you are imperfect and yet I’ll accept you as who you are, as we made the journey together to attain that perfection. I hope that you will do the same 
