Fairy Tales Tell No Lies

By Hui Guniang

I like to visit the Disneyland Parks around the world, where otherwise strange things in our daily life appear explicitly reasonable and cute.

Once at the Disneyland in Japan, I saw two old ladies with gray hair, in their seventies or eighties, accompanied by neither children nor husbands.

Hand in hand, wheelchair-free, and with stooped backs, the two old sisters were slowly strolling in the park, whispering and laughing to each other. One of them wore a red Mickey Mouse ears headband while the other carried a Minnie backpack and held an ice cream in the shape of Donald Duck in her hand. The two ladies took turns having bites of the ice cream.

At such an old age, their teeth were all gone and they had to gum the ice cream into their mouths, slurping in the melting liquid, which overflowed from the corners of their mouths. The two ladies were not worried, instead, they just looked at each other smilingly, wiping their mouths for each other with their sleeves.

Tears welled up in my eyes, not because I was sad for them being so old, but because I was moved by their childlike innocence.

At the Disneyland in Paris, I saw a mother and a daughter looking like sisters.

They were buying Elsa dresses from Frozen in a store, with the mom trying on the adult size and the daughter trying on the child size.

The handsome father called their names from outside the fitting room. The mom opened the door and came out with her daughter, both laughing, blue gauze skirts flowing around them in a surreal manner. The husband and dad ran over to hug them, planting one kiss on each of them, admiring heartily, “Oh, my princess and my little princess, you two look gorgeous.”

Mom or daughter, old or young, they were both princesses that day.

In the Disneyland of Orlando, I saw two big black men in their forties or fifties having a duel under the castle, fully dressed in pirate costumes from Pirates of the Caribbean. Sparring aggressively and menacingly, they looked like two children playing dress-up, while the words coming out of their mouths were all classic lines from of the film:

“Wherever we want to go, we'll go. That's what a ship is, you know.”

“This is either madness, or brilliance. It's remarkable how often those two traits coincide.”

“For certain, you have to be lost to find a place that can't be found, elseways everyone would know where it was.”

No one in the crowd laughed at them. Instead, the spectators burst into applause from time to time when they heard highlights.

Suddenly, one of the men swung his sword, just missing a middle-aged woman beside him.

Taken aback, the woman took a step back and blurted out a line: “Don't fire at me!”

The crowd laughed and applauded again.

The two men regarded themselves as pirates, and so did the spectators.

I have a friend who seldom goes out due to her leg disability. On December 3 of one year, which was the International Day of Disabled Persons, the Disneyland of Shanghai invited many people with disabilities to visit it, and she was among those who attended.

That was her first time going to an amusement park.

On that day, she tried the ride named “Tron Lightcycle Power Run,” on which special comfortable seats were installed for the disabled. It was so fast that she couldn't find her voice when she wanted to scream.

She cried after she came down, which startled the staff and her companions. They asked her: “Why are you crying? Are you scared?” To which she replied: “It's so fast and so much fun. I felt like I was really racing in the movie Tron: Legacy, speeding through the air. It felt so cool. I have been crippled half of my life and never expected to have such an experience. It's so worth it.”

It's easy to dream, but having people believe in their dreams is hard.

Life is long and bitter, and we need to indulge ourselves in the fairy tales now and then, living a surreal life even just for one day.

Let's give our dreams a bit more space.

(From Don't Care, Don't Fear, CITIC Publishing Group. Translation: Lu Qiongyao)

童话不说谎

文/辉姑娘

我很喜欢逛世界各地的迪士尼乐园。在那里，平时看起来“匪夷所思”的画面，总会变得合理又可爱起来。

在日本迪士尼，我看到两名头发花白的老太太。

大约七八十岁，没有子女跟随，也没有老头儿陪伴。

两个老姐妹手拉着手，弓着腰，不坐轮椅，一边低声说笑着，一边慢吞吞地在园中逛着。其中一个老太太头上戴着红色的米奇头饰，另一个老太太背着米妮背包，手里还拿着一根唐老鸭造型的雪糕，自己咬一口，又递给对方咬一口。

大约是年纪太大，牙都掉光了，她们只能把雪糕放在嘴里慢慢含化。结果化着化着水就顺着嘴角流出来了，两人也不着急，彼此看着呵呵地笑，用袖子给对方擦嘴。

我看得眼泪都要流出来了。

不是为苍老而难过，是为童心而感动。

在巴黎迪士尼，我见到有好几对母女看起来像姐妹一般。

她们在店里买冰雪女王的裙子，妈妈试成人大码，孩子试幼童小码。

英俊的父亲在更衣室外呼唤她们的名字，妈妈带着女儿推门出来，同时笑起来，两袭蓬松的蓝色纱裙朦朦胧胧地飘荡着。男人一脸惊喜，跑过去把她们拥在怀里，左亲一口右亲一口，轻声地赞赏：“哦，我的公主和我的小公主，你们太美了。”

没有妈妈和女儿，没有年长与年幼。

只有公主和小公主。

奥兰多迪士尼。

两个看上去已经四五十岁、胖胖的黑人男子，买了全套加勒比海盗的装束，穿戴整齐，气势汹汹地在城堡下面“决斗”。

那场面简直像两个小孩子在过家家。

你一言我一语，全都是《加勒比海盗》的经典台词：“我们想去哪里就去哪里，这就是船的真正含义。”

“疯狂和伟大之间只有一线之隔，它们往往是相伴而行的。”

“当然要迷失方向，才能到达一个无人能找到的地方。”

围观的没有一个人嘲笑他们。听到精彩处，还不时爆发出热烈的掌声。

忽然，其中一个男人挥剑一划，险些划到旁边一个中年女人。

女人吓得后退一步，脱口而出：“不要冲我开火。”

周围的人再次笑着鼓起掌来。

他们把自己当海盗。

旁观者也把他们当海盗。

我有个朋友是残疾人，腿部行动不便，平时很少外出。某年12月3日，国际残疾人日，上海迪士尼邀请了许多残障人士去游玩，她也在其中。

那是她第一次去这种游乐园。

那天，她坐了速度最快的“创极速光轮”，上面有残疾人专用的座位，非常舒服。光轮太快了，在上面喊都喊不出声来，她下来以后就哭了。

她一哭，把工作人员和陪同的亲友都吓到了，连忙问她为什么哭，是不是吓到了。

她说：“真快，真好玩。我就像在《创：战纪》里飙车一样爽。穿了机甲，风驰电掣。以前不敢想。我瘸了半辈子，还能有这种体验，值了。”

让人做梦很简单，让人相信梦境很难。

人生漫长苦涩，我们需要在童话故事里短暂地放肆，不切实际地活一天。

让造梦的空间再多一点吧。

（摘自《无所谓，无所畏》中信出版集团）