Happiness♥

Yesterday my adopted grandmother came to visit my sister and I at my house. My grandmother had a talk with my little sister about patience. She gave my little sister a book called "Stay in the Castle". Sasha asked what the book was about and my grandmother replied, "It's about how people who do not have the patience to grow up and think things through, end up in a path that was not for them". In the book "Stay in the Castle," there is a princess and a King. The King loves his daughter very much and wants only the best for her, but she wants to go to parties outside the castle and hang around with the town villagers. The princess does not listen to her father and leaves the castle secretly every night. Her father warned her that living outside the castle would be totally different and things are not always what they seem. The King adds that he had been preparing a plan for his daughter, where she could be happy only if she could be patient enough to wait for it. This plan included a Prince that would respect and love her endlessly and a Kingdom of her own. The father says " This castle has never been a prison. This castle is a decision. If you leave here things will never be the same. My love for you will never change, but everything else will."

The Princess chose to leave the castle and was convinced that the exciting life of the villagers was worth leaving the Castle for. Years go by and the Princess is pregnant and is married to a Villager. Her husband leaves her every day on her own to drink with his friends. One day the princess notices a handsome prince riding his steed heading for the castle. She sees her father from a distance open the door to the prince. Her father pats him on the shoulder and points to the village letting him know that his daughter was no longer in the Castle, but in the Village. The Prince turns his head to his feet and walks back slowing back to his horse full of disappointment. As the Prince departs, the Princess starts to cry, realizing the handsome Prince was suppose to be for her. She came to the conclusion that if she would've been patience things would have been different for her.

The point that my grandmother wanted to get across to Sasha was that my mother, like God has this plan already created for Sasha and I. She explains that we have the privilege to choose which path it is we want to follow. My grandmother believes that if we do not follow in God's path then we will not be able to see the things that were already planed for us. She adds that temptation is a hard thing to ignore but we must keep strong and not let others or yourself get sidetracked from the path we were meant to follow.