Last night on the bus back from KL I was watching "Sex and the City".

It wasn't like I had a specific interest in it, I just recalled the whole fuss about the show back then and figured that I had to discover for myself what the fuss was about.

I thought of it OK, except this scene which caught my attention: where Carrie's reading a story to Lily and she ends off with "..and they all lived happily ever after" Only to add, "But you know that's just a fairy tale, right? Things don't always work out like that in real life."

I think fairy tales are important because they teach (the bulk of) us the rules of society: that men are supposed to meet women, and they're then expected to live together for the rest of their lives.

But I think its the reason why most of us girls are broken-hearted or jaded.

We have these expectations moulded unknowingly in our young little girly minds. And when we find that love was not quite what the books taught us, we start crashing our way down from heaven.

I don't know, but shouldn't we be fed with real-life stories from young? Experiences of people with BOTH good and bad endings.

I like reading fiction to be immersed in all sorts of possibilities and imaginations.

But I also like non-fiction to jolt me back to the realities of life.

And no, I'm not jaded. I'm just being practical.