Do you believe in fairies?

It's questions like this that have people spluttering into their coffee and choking on their food but it's a pretty valid question when you consider the grand scheme of things.  Like do you still belive in Santa or The Tooth Fairy?  These are 'imaginary' people we were told about when we were kids to help make our lives a bit more special but as we got older we found out the truth and because we were grown up we could take that awful truth.  No, Santa does not live in the North Pole with his wife and all the elves making your toys in time for Christmas, it's your parents who go through all the stress and hassle of shopping for you.  No, The Tooth Fairy doesn't take the teeth you leave under your pillow and give you money instead, your parents tell you this to stop you thinking your life has ended because you have a huge gap in the front of your once cute smile.  And no, fairies do not exist, they don't flutter happily together in the woods and at the bottom of your garden...this is just a ploy to get you to buy all the toys and books associated with the subject!!  Now, do you feel better knowing that?  Have I shattered your hopes and dreams?  Is your life really any clearer now that you know there aren't strangers sneaking round your house in the middle of the night and taking things from under your pillow?  No it bloody well isn't!

How can you be happy knowing that all these things do not and never have existed?  It is like having all your dreams smashed and crushed under a great big boot...it's a bit heart breaking, isn't it?  So what really is wrong with still believeing?  What's wrong with having a bit of faith?  Because that's all it is - faith.  Five little letters that have struck fear into the hearts of the strongest and bravest of people for as long as time is old.  If you have faith then you must be a religious person and you must have an ulterior motive...what do you want that you can't get from the 'real' world?  That question is too big for anyone to answer!!  Everyone has their own set of beliefs and their own faith, why can't that just be enough?

My own faith consists of so many different things it would take more than a few lines on a blog to explain!  I believe in God but I'm not religious; I believe in angels and I do believe in fairies but I don't go looking for them in my garden, and I do believe in the 'magic' of Santa but I'm not holding out any hope of getting what I really want for Christmas!  I have a faith that goes beyond the traditional and isn't a popular one but it does me just fine!  I believe in fate and that we are all the masters of our own destiny...if you want something bad enough and are willing to work for it then I see no reason why you shouldn't achieve it, or something close to it, but I also believe that we all have the power within ourselves to wish and believe and trust in something that can't be explained by science or technology.  It's like an inner knowledge that there is something out there that is bigger than us and that while it doesn't control our lives it guides us and helps us along the way...like a gut instinct but different!  And in my life that instinct has gotten me into more trouble than I care to imagine but it's also brought some of the best moments I've ever had and despite all that trouble I'd never stop trusting it.  Call me silly but it's just how I feel.  We could all go on a bit of faith these days.  It wouldn't hurt and who knows where it might lead? xx