My Life as Cinderella - The Happily Ever After

The story of Cinderella is well known to just about everyone. How she was raised by her evil stepmother while her dad was away and eventually died, and how her stepmother and sisters had her doing all the chores around the house while they did nothing. She then meets the prince and they fall in love and live happily ever after.

My story? Not quite the same. I work my butt off twenty-four/seven around the house, and most of time I don't feel like it's ever appreciated or even noticed. However, I do not live in the poorest conditions in which I wear rags and eat a dinner of bread and water.

In comparing Cinderella and myself, there are a lot of similarities as well as differences. Throughout Cinderella's life, she has worked very hard under very poor conditions and to her luck it had been worth every scrubbing second.

While I am not working under such harsh conditions, I am constantly struggling to pay bills, and to keep up with school as well as around the house. One partial difference between the "Cinderella" and I, is the fact that indeed I am not of royalty but I also do not live in a one-room shack.

"To get respect, you have to give it"

If I had to create a bumper sticker it would be "To get respect, you have to give it". It has been a slogan that I have been preached and taught my whole life. This is an important part of who my family and I are. Not only is this saying one my dad uses frequesntly, but I believe that it should be used as a guideline for everyone.

This phrase is somewhat similar to the golden rule except that it is more detailed in the fact that it is specifically referring to respect.

Examples of this include getting up from a chair to let an elderly person or someone older than you to have a seat. Also, my sisters and I have been raised to use common manners such as holder the door open for someone walking in behind you, saying please and thank you when necessary, and saying "excuse me" walking by someone when you're in their way.


All in all, respect is what keeps the world turning and without it the people that live on it would have utter chaos.