A Story

Once upon a time there was a little girl who had an evil step-mother. The Evil Step-mother was all sweetness and light initially. She wanted to impress the little girl's father so that he would marry her. It continued for a few years after the wedding until one day the Step-mother revealed that she was pregnant. She took the little girl to have her hair cut short like a boy's saying "You aren't responsible enough for long hair." She dressed the little girl in track suits and polyester pant suits printed to look like jeans with partches saying "You get too dirty to wear nice things." One day after the little girl came in from playing outside in the sun the Evil step mother yelled at her "Look at how messy you are? You are covered in mud and dust!" She threw the little girl in to the bath and scrubbed her skin until it was raw. The brown color never came off for it was a suntan.

When the new baby was born the little girl hoped that they would become a family and that the new baby would be a friend to her. The Evil Step-mother said "leave the baby alone, you'll just hurt her, or get her messy." When the little girl wanted her father's attention the Evil Step-mother would say "Babies need more of Daddy's attention than big girls." The little girl became more and more neglected as the baby grew older. Everything the baby asked for she got. The little girl wanted a pony, the baby got a Horse. The little girl wanted to take riding lessons, the baby was signed up for riding lessons the next week.

The one day when the girl was getting ready for school the Evil step-mother hit her. She could handle being ignored, she could handle being neglected, and she could even handle being treated with indifference, but she could not handle being hit. She left that house and never spoke to the Evil Step-mother ever again. To this day that Evil step-mother thinks that she gave her heart and soul to the little girl and that she is spoiled unappreciative little brat.

Perspective is 9/10ths of perception.