Peter Pan and Neverland

I just realized that I'll be really sad when the time to finally say goodbye has come...

Neverland was Peter Pan's playground. It was where he hung out with some rowdy little rascals and played around with tiny, long-legged fairies in short tutus. It was just the most awesome place to be for boys like Peter who do not want to grow up--there are no chores, no grown ups, no rules and most of all, there's no time... or a sense of it.

But there was Tinkerbell, one of those fairies he fooled around with, who preferred Peter Pan among the other rascals. To her, he was special. Though she won't ever admit it. And though he would only take her for his ego.

In case you ever wondered how Peter thought of Tinkerbell, here's something which Tinkerbell could only hope that Peter really thought.

You're a--you're a complex Freudian hallucination having something to do
with my mother and I don't know why you have wings, but you have very lovely
legs and you're a very nice tiny person and what am I saying...

It was comforting for Tinkerbell to know that Peter Pan liked her for reasons that were not underneath her skimpy skirt. But to what extent...that obsessed her and often drove her bitchy.

But the worst of Tinkerbell's fears was Wendy Darling. Wendy was the girl who came from the real world... where there were teachers and homeworks, parents and punishments, and curfews and birthdays.

She made a difference to Neverland; a difference that's far beyond the work of Tinkerbell's wand nor the goodness of her tiny heart. It was a difference she caused to Peter Pan, the boy who would not grow up. For in time, Peter left his timeless playground to start a family with Wendy Darling.

It's a sad ending. But it's a fact that boys and fairies will never match. Except maybe mutually, when they can be just friends, or parasitically, when one of them takes advantage of the other.

Well, Peter Pan can always come to visit Tinkerbell in Neverland: the place which is in-between sleep and being awake.

But the thing is, she belongs in a world that existed only in Peter Pan's memory. That's why it's Neverland: it never existed.

Click here to read my old, old entry called Tinkerbell: The Bitchfairy.