A Poem, A Recommending Of A Book, My Thoughts, And A Dare

My Fairy

I have a fairy by my side

Which says I must not sleep,

When once in pain I loudly cried

It said "You must not weep."

If, full of mirth, I smile and grin,

It says "You must not laugh;"

When once I wished to drink some gin

It said "You must not quaff."

When once a meal I wished to taste

It said "You must not bite;"

When to the wars I went in haste

It said "You must not fight."

"What may I do?" at length I cried,

Tired of the painful task.

The fairy quietly replied,

and said "You must not ask."

This is a poem by Lewis Carrol, called My Fairy.  I found it in my delightful little book called "Jabberwocky & Other Poems" by, of course, Lewis Carrol (I sure hope you notice that I think that Lewis Carrol is a genius, if not, you must be blind), which I think all ought to own. It's full of poetry from both Alice In Wonderland and Through The Looking-Glass, and plenty of other books he wrote. ANYWAYS, it says the moral of this poem is "You mustn't", but I think it has more meaning to it then that. If you are not blind, of course, you can see that this 'fairy' is not letting this poor person do anything (how does someone live like that, I wonder? To not be allowed to do anything... I wonder if that counts for breathing), I believe that he is trying to show that the fairy is the hesitation we often go through. Like hesitating to act like yourself, hesitating to say something, hesitating to do something, we (at least most girls, I believe) hesitate on almost EVERYTHING. So, I want to give my readers (if I even have any) a little dare. I want you all to act like yourselves this week. Not some person you want to be, not some person your friends or family want you to be, I want you to be, well, YOU. And, if it helps you to want to do this dare, I will be doing it too. WELL.. I THINK that's it. Have a wonderful, like yourself, week!