Fairy Tales

Based upon the reading that was assigned to us and the discussion in class, I have come to realize how important fairy tales are. I used to just think of them, well, I actually didn't really think of them. I didn't think they were necessarily "bad" but I guess I didn't really think of them holding as much weight and importance as I have come to realize they have had all this time. Nurses don't tell kids about the grass but the fairies in the grass. These kinds of stories exercise our imagination and creative thought, strengthens, quite possibly, our ability to believe in the things we cannot see. God, gravity, emotions, etc. As Buechner says: "You enter the extraordinary by way of the ordinary."

I see Buechner's statement residing within our culture today. If one has the skill to peer into the things that are commonplace, normal, ordinary, and to see something exotic, abnormal, extraordinary within, the world would be a much different place. I think the one film that stood out to me was Bunny. I did not see the messenger moth at first being something greater than that of annoyance, but as the film unfolded, through that ordinary creature the director displayed something much more extraordinary than I would have thought possible with a raggedy rabbit and bothersome moth. Truly, if only we are able to see the extraordinary in the ordinary, we would know more of the unseen, and of the fairy tales that open up that door for us.