The Princess Who Wept Diamonds

My name is Frank Tropea. I was born in 1949 in Massachusetts to an Italian family. When I was little I always loved fantasy and fairy tales. Later on ghost stories and the supernatural were added to the list. After enlisting in the Navy I completed college with a B.A. in Lit and Psychology. Ten years later I went to Harvard Extension to get my M.A. in Lit. and Psychology. The human mind and all its gifts and pathologies fascinated me no end.After several vocational rocky starts in my life I finally got a computer job as a Case Specialist in a courthouse which Ive held for a very long time. In that time Ive seen how badly astray the human mind and behavior can go and it never ceases to amaze me.Tough as in most fairy tales I would like to believe that good always triumphs over evil with todays society and or dark current political situation Im not so sure of it. If we are to survive as a society even as a species on earth we must I think reclaim somehow the better angels of our natures and not give in to the cynicism materialism and general negativity one sees so much of on the news.We must somehow recapture our wonder and innocence of childhood when in fairy tale and fiction goodness was prized and always won out in the end. Like the good people in fairy tales and myth we must relearn to be kind to each other and to animals too and to treasure each new day as not only a gift from God but a chance somehow to make the world a better place.