Imaginary Fairy

**Imaginary Fairy** is the first episode of *Fairy Dust*.

## Description from website

*Sugar, Spice, and Nice are 11-year-old kids. They are constantly forced to deal with life's most disappointing bummers. After that, in a rage of frustration, they throw their Magic 10-Ball against the wall of their classroom. It opens... revealing a fairy god-bunny named Callister Drizzledrops who introduces herself. She can magically grant wishes! What will Sugar, Spice, and Nice wish for?*

## Plot

Sugar, Spice, and Nice are cozily tucked in bed asleep. Their parents command them to get up. The three friends all protest and turn over, only to be threatened by their parents, saying that they need to go to school and be educated. Sugar, Spice, and Nice reluctantly agree to go to school, only to be overworked with boring assignments, which made them lash out in anger.

Sugar, Spice, and Nice angrily complain about the adults not letting them get their way. They then ask their Magic 10-Ball when life will ever be fun, to which it answered with a negative response*.* As the friends all break down into tears, and are ready to give up their lives, they throw their ball at the wall, where it split in half and released a magic sparkly aura, acting as the entrance of Callister Drizzledrops, their "fairy god-bunny". Callister then introduces herself before quickly noticing how Sugar, Spice, and Nice don't seem to have enough time to complete their work, and how they always seem to have time for YouTube and video games.

Sugar, Spice, and Nice discover the bunny's ability to grant wishes, immediately wishing for life to be all fun and games (which of course is realistically impossible). They wish for all the rules/responsibilities to go away, to eat dessert before dinner, and to leave piles of homework sitting on their desk while they headed out to play endlessly. Everyone's laundry, bills, chores, and other tasks begin to accumulate increasingly as they all cheered with joy.

Meanwhile, without anymore rules in place, the town's citizens are running wild. A criminal is seen robbing banks as he rampages through the streets. One person drives by with a bunch of toys. Another person is trying to lasso a school bus. Other people are carrying bags of cash and jewels. Even more people are parachuting to the ground, while striking buildings with their mallets. People are also using laser-beams to destroy buildings. Five more people are flying in their rocket suits while carrying gold bars. The world rapidly begins to fall apart.

After burning their school in fire, Sugar, Spice, and Nice are shown relaxing in lounge chairs with their feet up. They then ask Callister if she can be with them all the time, to which she says she'll be with them for as long as possible (an episode that proves just how important work before play can be).

## Episode Lessons

### Daily Responsibilities

Responsibility is extremely crucial, because it provides a sense of purpose, in addition to building resilience amidst adversity on an individual and societal level. Just like an addiction, neglecting to do our work may feel good in the short-term, but leads to exponentially worse pain and suffering in the long term. It can be frustrating, it can be annoying, and it might not seem fair. Although we may oftentimes want to resist doing what we don't want to, consider the other areas of life where you are not responsible for the problem, but still need to be part of the solution.

Everyone feels like taking the easy way out and running away from problems, people, and their life when it's gotten to be too much to handle. We feel like running away from problems because stress and anxiety have overwhelmed us and we start looking for an escape route or a safe place to hide, which will only give us some temporary relief. However, in most cases, the big problem for us, and what happens when we feel like running away, is that we've become too afraid to deal with our problems at all.

It’s never easy to go to school/work all day, or to have that hard talk, or to finish what we started, or to say sorry for the things we did wrong, or to actually wake up when the alarm sounds. It never was and never will be easy. Think about what’s the worst that could happen? You're not going to die because of it, and it is not going to be the end of you. So take your time to process, to grief, and to feel the emotion you have. And once you are done, remember to take a step forward. It's uncomfortable, but it is part of the process. In the end, those are what make us grow, because that's simply how life works.

Motivating yourself is one of the main things that sets high achievers apart, and it's hard. How do you keep pushing onward when your heart's not in it? There is one simple tactic. Set goals that are intrinsically rewarding, and make them worthwhile. It is important to find joy in our everyday responsibilities, rather than constantly seeking out more intense forms of entertainment, since running away from your problems just makes them worse.

### Work Before Play

Have you heard your kids claim that they don't have enough time to complete their chores? Many kids (and adults) simply don't make the effort to prioritize work before play. While everyone procrastinates from time to time, constantly putting off work can become a very dangerous habit. Do you ever find that we seem to have a million excuses why something can't get done, like work or chores? Yet, when it comes to pursuing our favorite desires, obstacles are no match for our diligence? Part of building character comes with doing the things we need to do before we're allowed to do the things we want to do.

### Following Rules

Imagine how the would would be if nobody had any rules, we would all be living in a huge chaotic mess. As you've probably already guessed from the classroom example described above, rules create order out of chaos. Although you might want to be able to do whatever you want to do whenever you want to do it, you probably wouldn't want the same absence of rules to apply to everyone else.

To live and function in a society, we must have rules we mostly all agree upon. Sometimes, these rules are more formal, like the ones we have at home and in the classroom. Breaking these rules may have consequences, such as a time out or detention, but breaking them usually doesn't mean you're going to jail. Lots of rules are modified and applied to everyone in a particular community. These rules are known as laws and breaking them can have more serious consequences, such as going to jail or paying a fine.