Into the Woods Post II

Prompt #2. "Wishes may bring problems such that you regret them.  Better that though, than to never get them."
     Many of the characters have experienced this with their wishes.  Cinderella is a prime example.  She was a servant girl stuck cleaning all of the time and she wished to go to the festival.  Her wish was granted and she went.  As a result of her attending, the Prince searched for her and she married him!  Her dreams came true.  Then, she found out that the Prince cheated on her and she realized that maybe this wasn't what she wanted.  None of it would have happened if she hadn't gone to the festival. Cinderella's wish brought her marital problems, and that may have left her regretting her original wish.  On the other hand, if Cinderella had never gone to the festival, would she still be wishing to go?  In other words, she got her wish and dealt with the problems that came but she was better off for having her wish come true.

      In real life people deal with this problem.  It makes me think of the saying, "Be careful what you wish for". Often times people think, why be careful?  When you get what you wanted it might not be all you thought it would be.  I can't think of any real life examples right now but I can think of another character in a different musical.  Glinda from the musical Wicked, gets everything she wanted.  She gets to work with the Wizard and she gets the best looking guy in the show, but is she happy?  She says that, "happy is what happens when all your dreams come true," but she also sings a verse about how getting your dreams is complicated and you have to do things that you did not know you would do to get them.  In my opinion, people wish for something and while they are working towards their wish, they change.  Once they get what they thought they wanted its not as amazing as they thought it would be and they are never satisfied.  They always want something more.  All of your dreams will never come true because you will always create new dreams once old ones are achieved.  The key is to learn from wishes coming true and to accept the things you have to find true happiness.