Every Girl is a Princess....

I often wonder if one day Walt Disney was on his way to somewhere important and for some reason he was taking a train to get there. (Yes, a train, I am sure this would have taken place when he wasn’t Walt Disney just yet; at least not the Disney that we have all come to know and love.)  In my head I can see this scenario playing out like a movie...

I see dear Walt sitting at that train station; it’s a blustery day as pooh would describe it, and suddenly his hat starts to blow away. This blustery wind knocks it off of his hand and sends dear Walt on a wild chase. As he continues to chase his hat it lands at the foot of a bench.  Once he reaches his hat he is taken by surprise for on that bench sat a hopeless woman. (You could tell from a grave distance she was a very hopeless woman) Her face showed great sadness and despair. She noticed that his hat had landed on the ground; so she reached down and picked it up for him.

(Did he tell her thank you? Did he sit beside her and ask her about her troubles...

We really don’t know, because this is all made up... But for the sake of the story... Let’s say Dear Walt cared about people...)

As she hands him the hat suddenly he decides he should ask this woman her name.  She replies “Margret, thank you kindly”.  Just then Walt sees something in Ms. Margret’s eyes a great mystery to her hopeless face. He sees a story, he sees a light that perhaps Ms. Margret had forgot about because her current situation.  Walt decides to wait on the bench with her for the train that was to take him to that destination in which was rather important on this day!  

Margret could have inspired the story of a lost princess (Anastasia) One that was feeling hopeless in a place she was not welcomed (Cinderella) and looked for a way out but was forced to run away and find shelter (Snow White). She could have felt like she was trapped (Belle) by some mistake. She could have made a promise that she was bound to (Aurora).

Dear Margret could have longed to be someone that she wasn’t, and was willing to run away and change herself to be with that great love of her life (Ariel) or she could have been strong willed and very outspoken and had been on a journey to find what she knew she was looking for all along (Jasmine).

Either way, I would like to think that Margret had a story hiding behind her eyes. A story about love and life and loss (That defines hopeless to me, lost) and made dear Walt see that every woman and every girl needed something  special to lean on, something that would bring them hope. A story that could be told over and over and never fades with time. He would call it a fairytale. One in which our hearts would be lifted when we envisioned our prince bringing us to life with one kiss or riding in and saving us from great danger, a story where our prince would accept us for who we really are inside and would go to great lengths to find us if we were to get lost. A story where that said prince would go to great lengths to show that he is worthy of our hand and would always treat us with respect. A story where no matter what the end was happy and where we were princesses and love was a final destination for all of us. Great love... Great hope... Great happiness…

I want to believe that Walt found a princess sitting on a bench. A woman that was hopeless. A woman that loved and was capable of love and that dear Walt took Margret by the hand and told her that all was not lost... I would like to believe that Walt listened to her and at the end of her story that woman inspired the whole world because one person was able to take the time to care enough to listen!

I feel like that Woman on the bench right now…

Where are you Walt?