"The storybook I would love to be trapped in"

I received an email from Nuffnang the other day about a chance to win tickets to a movie and to do that, I have to write an entry about "The storybook I would love to be trapped in".
So I started thinking...

I mean, given his latest infatuation with orange colour and robots, I think he is likely to enjoy being trapped in a book with lots of oranges or maybe in a book that features the Transformer Autobots...

Or maybe he would like to go into a barney book...

But what about me? Where would I like to be trapped in?

I used to think that probably if I had a chance to be trapped in a book, the best place would to be in a story like Cinderella or even Snow White where there would be a Prince Charming who will come to save me from my misfortunes and live happily ever after ;)

But, now that I am much older and know that Prince Charming endings are not real..... and now that I know that in the original story, the person who really poisoned Snow White is not her stepmother but her real mother (Oedipus Complex, they dressed it up and changed it to stepmother to make the story seem less disturbing to children), I guess it is no longer appealing to take Snow White or Cinderella's place...

I thought about it for very long and I guess I wouldn't want to be trapped in a fairy tale... I mean, rather than follow someone else's storyline and call that MY LIFE... I would rather make my own decisions and create my own exciting stories in life..

Rather than wait for a Prince Charming to come and pull me into the security of happy-ever-afters, I would rather build my own happiness myself... because nobody can really help you.. unless you choose to help yourself, dun you agree?

Anyway, life wouldn't be fun if you knew what is going to happen next!

But then, if it meant going into the mediaval ages and into storybooks you have never read of before and having adventures you would never think of having... like in the movie, Inkheart... then well, change me into anything.. anything goes! ;) Pleasant surprises are one of the common recurring themes in fairytales and children's storybooks anyway.

Catch Inkheart in cinemas from 22 January 2009.