The witch called Snow White
AND they lived happily ever after.
This phrase sounds familiar. The moment you hear this, what comes to your mind are figures of princess riding handsome stallions and princesses singing in an enchanted forest with her animal friends.
After readers put down the magical tales that left them spellbound, their dreams that night would be of pumpkin carriages traveling towards a promised kingdom's silhouette in the nearing horizon. But fairytale aficionados know that there were some supporting roles left in the gloominess of the backstage.
After Snow White woke up, no news was heard of her stepmother after she fell from the vulture-trodden cliff. After Cinderella lost her obsession with the glass slippers, the other three party crashers never made headlines after their huge feet can't fit in a size four. These villains or antagonists made all the princesses look good in the pages of our bedtime stories. We don't get to hear their side of the story. On why they envied the rosy cheeked and black-haired beauties.
The explosion at the House of Representatives was not near our sugar sweet land of fairy tales. This is real life. But I see the same villain in the witch who tempted for a poisoned apple as that in the insolent fool who planted the bomb and caused some casualties. Whoever spearheaded this crime is certainly worth a basket of poisoned apples stuck in the linings of his or her esophagus. I am in deep sorrow and I emphatize with those affected by such violence.
Yet as I scanned the pages of my now dust-covered fairy tale classics, I couldn't help but ask: should everything be blamed on them? We never heard their side of the story in the first place. Although it was a violation of the law, it seems that the distribution of the blame seems slightly unfair.
In the silence of my heart, I rally for those who tasted the venom of terrorism and political revolts. The perpetrators should be convicted after due process. But throughout the course, I hope we can find it in our hearts to give the same human justice.
Sometimes we are unaware that we're the ones making our enemies. The government might be unaware that they could be the very factory of these rejected deviants in our society. Perhaps the government has forgotten their needs, abused its authority over them and others that may have triggered these.
Snow White was portrayed to be all-gentle and sublime because it was her story. Her stepmother was rubbished with awful characteristics. Could Snow White have devoured the time of her late father leaving none to the queen or bullied her stepmother as she was still in the defense of his loving father? Both may have triggered the queen to drink some potion struck by lightning and detoxified herself into an old hag. We spectators may appear innocent, the government may appear victimized. How about the stories left unprinted in the hearts of the leftists, those stories that because we never listened to was told through a bloody and violent manner.
I know someone who was accused of verbal harassment and being envious of a competitor. He was under surveillance and was threatened to accept right there and then all the allegations. They did not bother to hear what he had to say, on why he said bad things about the competitor. It was because that someone was quite unlucky, everyone was looking on the other side of the box and failed to see his own side that he's left with a bitter fate.
I hope we'll not only depend on our stories. If we do, we might find our books thrown outside the window the very next day.
There will always be hundreds and thousands of ugly witches and vile stepsisters who'll let you eat up some rotten apples, gate crash your party and rip off your vintage dress. Yet, remember it may only be in your story where they appear as villains.
In their fairy tales, you could be the reason why their lives turned nasty.
You could be their villain.
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