Navigating the Gray

Once Upon a Time there was a little girl and she believed in magic and fairy tales. 

She saw the good in everyone, even when they didn’t deserve it. 

She was fierce and brave. But she lived in the cloud not here on earth. 

But the clouds aren’t reality. 

The real world is a scary place. One where rules had to be followed. No room for floating in the clouds. The monsters and dragons the little girls had fought in her imagination were really people. She didn’t know how to exist in the real world; everything was black and white, no room for color.

Only there was color if she knew where to look. 

It might not be the bright, sparkly colors of the clouds she lived in, but it was there. 

The little girl’s mother told her if she learned how to blend the black and white, the gray would release the magic into her world.

Learning how to release the magic of reality has never come easily to anyone. 

Many break before they discover how to navigate this magic. 

All her mother could hope is that her little girl discovered how to play with magic of reality before its darkness swallowed her whole.