A story about creativity

A little story about a princess and how she escaped, despite all odds (June 21st 2026)

The most random thoughts and memories seem to be popping into my mind when I ask my subconscious mind to guide me in choosing the topic for the week's email.

I was bending down to tie my shoelaces the other day, when I noticed that, yes... a hole had made its way through my sock. My immediate thought wasn't, as you may expect, that I should do something about it, but I realised I was remembering a story I used to read to my daughters when they were younger.

Looking back, the book was truly mortifying (but it was by our favourite author, so I guess we bought it blindly). It was about a princess who was abducted by a wicked wizard, and for seven days, he made her do chores around the house (really disgusting ones, one of which was, of course, to darn his socks...).
To make things interesting, at the end of each day, he would allow her to shape-shift and hide, and if he found her, she'd have to stay another day, and if he didn't, well, she would be allowed to go back home.

Did I mention, by the way, that he abducted her in the middle of her birthday party?

Anyway, one day she changed into a duck in the pond, and another day into a flower in the rose bush, but every day, he found her. One day, she turned herself into a bird, and that's when she saw that the magic book he was holding was telling the wizard where she was hiding and what shape she had shifted into...

In other words, she really didn't have a chance to ever escape or go back to her parents at the castle, or her guests, all of whom were turned into stone when the abduction took place.

What would you do if you realised all was doomed and that all your efforts were pointless, because your every move was easily identified by a magic page in a magic book?

Well, the princess, let me tell you, now she was much cleverer than either of us (I imagine). The next day, she had shape-shifted herself into an empty page that was cleverly placed immediately on top of the magic page that was telling the wizard his answers.

When the wizard came to look for the answer... well... he couldn't find it! And his anger was so horrid and vile that he himself got turned into stone, and that's when the princess turned herself into a bird once more and flew home, to find all the party guests had turned back into their former state!

Looking back, I'm not sure I would buy this book again today, but in terms of creativity and out-of-the-box thinking, this is a good reminder that more often than not, it's just our imagination and lack of creativity that keep us stuck. We tell ourselves reasons why we can't do more of what we really like to do, and then we complain that we're stuck.

But if you had a birthday cake waiting for you somewhere, wouldn't you treat your obstacles with a little more intention and whoomph?

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