THE PARADOX PRINCESS

Do you believe in fairy tales? Does a princess really get her happily ever after? Well, now let’s see if that’s true. Once upon a time, on a cold and quiet night breeze in August, the only sound that broke the stillness of the whole kingdom was the cry of a newborn princess. This wasn’t a princess born with trumpets and cheers, but a new life began in a simple room of the castle. My story is not a fairytale about a prince, but something far more interesting. Yes, you’ve heard it right; the princess is me. A princess named Lovely Mae Rea Diwata. A lot of people say that my name is too long because they thought that Rea was my third name, but it is not. It’s my middle name, which I got from my half-Japanese mother named Lilia Rea. Aside from that, my second name, Mae, was given to me by my auntie, which means goddess, and is also connected to my surname, Diwata, which is a Tagalog word for 'fairy' and an e...