A lot of people has been asking me the same question ever since. Why frog princess? Well, it goes like this.
Do you remember the story of the Frog Prince? The one cursed to become a frog until a princess would kiss him and break the spell?
I always believed that the story of the frog prince is more than a story of love. I always believed that there is more to the frog prince than a story of two people who are destined to be with each other.
The frog prince (or princess) symbolizes somebody who wants to be his own person. Maybe the prince was never really cursed at all and became a frog. The curse is a symbol of a stereotype. So the Frog prince is like living in a world of stereotypes who only wanted to break free and become who he really is.
And so am I. I am living in a world of preconceptions, a world full of ideas of what people should do and how they should act. Like the frog prince I am trapped in a body that is not mine. What people see in me is the frog, the big bulgy frog whose ugliness repels everything. Maybe not really but almost like that. Or in a sense people just see in me what they want to see. And like the frog prince I want to break free.
There is more to me than my physical appearance. There is more to me than what people wants to see. Maybe there is a princess slumbering inside me. Maybe there is a lady waiting for her prince. Or maybe there is just me wanting to be accepted--unconditionally.
So yes, I am a frog princess and slowly I am breaking free from the curse
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