Once upon a time when I was younger, I use to believe that one day my prince charming would come rescue me and everything would be fine. Well, ten years later and here I am, and there’s no prince charming. I have never had a prince charming to come and save me from the hurt that I’m going through.

Instead of having my prince, I tend to fall for the wrong guy. Not just the guy that no one would approve of, but that guy that would leave when I needed him. Now don’t get me wrong, I am not the desperate I-need-a-guy type of girl. But every now and then when I see my friends and see how happy they are I can’t help but want what they have.

Years after believing that one day my fairy tale would happen and believing that I would have a prince, I started to give up. I started to let go of that hope. I started thinking that love can’t conquer all. That maybe there are those people out there that are meant to be alone, and maybe I was one of them. I didn’t just think this because I wasn’t dating someone. I had good reason. All the guys I had liked in the last year, well to put it bluntly, played with my mind hardcore.

I know that part of it was my fault, I was the one believing in them. Believing in all that they said. Well after having the realization that fairy tales don’t necessarily come true, I just stopped caring. Not for people, but I stopped caring whether or not I was dating someone. Life seemed to go the way it normally did. I didn’t have a boyfriend, I still had great friends, and school was great. So I was busy. Yes, I still liked people during this time, but I wasn’t trying to get their attention or to get them to like me back.

Well, one evening, I was at the movies surprisingly seeing He’s Just Not That Into You, when I actually learned that, yeah, the movie was right. There are those girls who are the exceptions and then there’s ones like me, who are the rule.

It hit me as the movie ended that fairy tales are real. Maybe it’s not prince charming climbing up a tower to save you, but he is out there. All we have to do is have faith and hope and continue to believe in those fairy tales. To believe that love can conquer all. To believe that there really is someone out there for everyone. Including those of us who are the rule.

So for any of the girls that might be reading this and are thinking of giving up and becoming cynical – don’t. Keep believing. It’s hard, but one day we all will have a prince charming.