Here is the conclusion I have come to.

I have made many lists of what the perfect guy would be for me, and I imagine him absolutely perfect from broad to subtle details.

I have decided that this way of thinking is ridiculous and I blame it on Disney princes.

If there was an acronym for the Disney princes, it would be

Pretty
Insane
Notions
Constantly
Exceeding
Standards.

The Disney princes fit together like puzzle pieces with each princess that they are assigned to by the creators. Can you imagine anyone being with them other than the ones that they are written for? Nope.

People are constantly placing blame on Disney princesses and how they are tailored to perfection, with their cinched waists, each hair put into place with their tresses. I believe that the Disney princesses do offer too much in the expectations of what women should strive to be, but what about the princes?

When we are older and of age, we are trying to find our Prince Charming who obeys the checks off the crumpled list that we had set into our mind when we were six years old.

Your Prince Charming does not exist.

This kind of love and this kind of connection is in the movies between a wall of animation and CGI, so hopelessly out of our reach that we are not even in the same realities.

I do believe that I have a soul mate out there, whether they are in the near or distant future. I do know that I have someone that was placed into the 3D reality that I live in as opposed to the puppets the creators use in the movies to fake what the love you should feel is.

I am not going to be whisked away to a happily ever after with singing birds and animals as my friends. I am also not going to have the perfect hourglass figure with the big doe eyes that might be on the opposite gender's imaginary checklist.

But I do have hope that I am going to find this person, and it is going to be an instant fire, an instant connection. I have hope. Disney didn’t ruin that for me.

They just made it a little bit harder to find the diamond in the rough.