The following story is true. The names and places have been changed to protect the guilty. There are no innocent people in this story, except maybe the dashing knight in shining armor. BUT, the story is true; I stake my name on it. I will stake my life on it. I know the dashing knight in shining armor very well. To well, in fact.

The story is intended for an audience of one. It has an important point to make for that audience of one. But if you stumbled onto this website by accident, then read on. Especially if you are a parent with a daughter. Because boys are thick, and you must ensure that your daughter understands this. You and your daughter must understand the point I am trying to make. It is an important point. This is the most important point anyone has ever made in the history of point making.

This is how it happened. It happened exactly as described. Ok, almost exactly. …..our story starts a long time ago (27 years) in a kingdom far, far away…….

A long, long time ago in a kingdom far, far away lived a dashing knight in shining armor. He was actually a knight in training. He was not very brave. It was not that he was a coward. He could kill any man with one sweep of his sword. He could climb mountains and swim dark and dangerous water. He was a fierce warrior. His non bravery was evident in his inability to tell a creature of stunning beauty what he felt for her. Our dashing knight in shining armor was attending the school for royalty, and at attendance at this school was a beautiful princess, the likes that has never been seen in the kingdom. She was dashing, fair, stunning, friendly, kind and had a beautiful mouth, the most kissable mouth ever to grace the kingdom, and all other kingdoms as well. Her only flaw was that she was apparently not very good at the science of math tics, as she was in the same grade as the prince, who could kill a whole heard of buffalo, but could not count how many arrows he fired at the buffalo. Her second flaw was that she showed interest at our dashing knight in shining armor’s friend and travel companion. (We will call him BSF, for back stabbing friend) And our dashing knight in shining armor was hopelessly in love with the fair princess. Hopelessly is actually an understatement. Every time he saw the fair princess it felt like someone threw him with a glacier. Every time she touched him he almost cried of joy and when she smiled at him, he had a series of heart attacks that should have killed a school of killer whales. But his love for the fair princess prevented him from dying of the heart attacks. He just suffered the pain in silence. He suffered the pain on a daily basis for 3 years. I cannot pen the agony he felt day in and day out, but I am sure you get the picture.

Little did our dashing knight in shining armor know, but the fair princess was also in love with our dashing knight in shining armor. She tried many ways to tell our dashing knight in shining armor how she felt, but he could never see what was right in front of his face. She amended her own grades in math tics to a lower standard just to sit behind our dashing knight in shining armor. At the school for royalty almost everyone knew of the fair princess’s love for our dashing knight in shining armor, but they all conspired with BSF to keep them apart, as BSF had designs on the fair princess himself. The conspiracies keeping our dashing knight in shining armor away from the princess is so horrible, that I cannot in good grace repeat them here. The princess made only two mistakes in her efforts of gaining our dashing knight in shining armor attention, she trusted BSF to assist her, and as we determined, he was a backstabbing person of low breed and very questionable values in life. Her second mistake is the moral of this story and the point I am trying to make, and it is that she never told our dashing knight in shining armor exactly how she felt. She used words like “feel”, “like” and “I need purity” as substitutes for the word love. And no word can be a substitute for love, as this story will prove.

And so, due to back stabbing friends and the inability of the princess to say what she felt, our dashing knight in shining armor graduated from the school for royalty, as did the princess, without ever getting what they each so desperately desired. The princes decided that our dashing knight in shining armor does not love her, and married BSF. The plan BSF designed worked perfectly. BSF immediately broke all contact with our dashing knight in shining armor, fearing that he will one day steal the fair princess back from him. He forced the princess to go to another kingdom with him so that our dashing knight in shining armor had no hope of ever finding them. Here, in this new kingdom he kept her locked up, and living in fear for her life. All that she had left to keep her alive was her (still) undying love for our dashing knight in shining armor.

Our dashing knight in shining armor went from the school for royalty into the world. He was not a happy knight, but had to get over his feelings for the fair princess due to the responsibilities as a dashing knight in shining armor. Our knight was his father’s right hand man, bringing law and justice to the lawless. He had many adventures, meeting various ladies on his travels and broadened his experience. But still he yearned for the fair princess. On one of his travels he met a damsel in distress, who was actually an evil witch in disguise. She enslaved our dashing knight in shining armor with an evil spell, and soon had him under her control. Our dashing knight in shining armor had no idea of the vileness of the witch, and was even happy on occasion. He never forgot her fair princess, but through that life’s cruelty will not allow him to ever be with the one he truly loved. Little did he know how cruel life can be.

Sometime after our dashing knight in shining armor were enslaved by the evil witch, the fair princess escaped the clutches of the evil, vicious one time travel companion of our dashing knight in shining armor. She jumped on the first ship back to the kingdom where the dashing knight in shining armor still resided. When she arrived at her mother’s castle, she sends a bird with a message for the dashing knight in shining armor. He arrived 5 minutes later at the gates of the castle. The fair princess decided to see how happy the dashing knight in shining armor was. And if there was any indication of unhappiness she will take him away with her. The dashing knight in shining armor had no idea of this intention and he wore a happy face for the fair princess sake. The evil witch did all in her power to show the fair princess that everything is happy between the evil witch and our dashing knight in shining armor. The fair princess saw that the dashing knight in shining armor is happy and she went back to the kingdom she came from, to try and put her life in order, believing she had no choice but to go back to the evil, one time traveling companion of the dashing knight in shining armor, or BSF, as he is known in this story. This was the last time the dashing knight in shining armor saw the fair princess in person, but she has not yet passed from the pages of the story. After the fair princess left thing went downhill for the dashing knight in shining armor and the evil witch. The witch saw that she will lose the dashing knight in shining armor, and she tricked him into buying a puppy. She knew that if he had responsibility to look after a puppy, he will never leave her. And so the fate of our dashing knight in shining armor was sealed, not with a kiss, but with a puppy. He and the evil which also moved to another kingdom and started a new life there. Things continued like that for a few years, and this story would have ended on a sad note if it wasn’t for the wizard of OZ.

The wizard of OZ was a very powerful wizard. He was a wizard of many and existed in all the kingdoms of the land at the same time. He also lived backwards in time and had three eyes, but these facts do not bear any truth, so we will not spend too much time on them. What is known to be a fact of truth is that the wizard created an orb, a crystal ball if you like. If any person uses the crystal ball, this person could think of any one in all the kingdoms, and that person will appear in the ball. More, that person will magically have their own crystal ball. There was another side to this ball; it revealed the truth as believed by everyone using the ball. The wizard knew that the fair princess was very unhappy, having visited with her a few times. She wore her heart on her leg, as the saying went. One day when she was very down, he gave her the ball. As soon as the fair princess was alone, she looked in the ball and thought of the dashing knight in shining armor. His face appeared instantly in the ball. More, he knew how she felt since the days of the school for royalty. She also saw his pain, and all he offered up in life, and that his heart was pure and still belonged to her. And although they were far apart, and caught in unhappy relationships, they now have each other through a crystal ball, and they can now share their feelings and hopes and dreams. Our dashing knight in shining armor now have a spring in his step, and the fair princess can mow her lawn every Friday knowing that just the thought of that well kept lawn puts a smile on our dashing knight in shining armor’s face and a bone under his bonnet. She herself found that even going to church is now a squeamish and pleasant experience.

And is there a future for our dashing knight in shining armor and his fair princess. Unfortunately, I do not know. What I do know is that there is plans for them to meet in the near future, and who will know what can come from a meeting like that. We can only hope.

And now, the point I am trying to make, the moral of the story so to speak. If you love someone, if you ever have one ounce of feelings for someone, speak up. Tell it like it is, do not hold back. They might not return the feelings, and that will hurt for a while, but if you keep it for yourself, it will hurt for a lifetime long. Mothers, and my audience of one, teach your daughters to tell her man when she loves him. Teach them to say it out loud. Else their live will be filled by regrets.

And finally, for my audience of one. Know this, the dashing knight in shining armor still loves you. The love has changed from the puppy love he felt 27 years ago. It is now the love of a knight that has found himself. The love of a man for the woman he wants with him for the rest of his life. And although the chances of that ever happening are slim, never lose sight of that love for you, burning day and night in his soul.