We all grow up, but sometimes we even love, yes even as a young child we still love, not just for our parents, or our siblings, (but lets face it, who likes their siblings when you're young?) most of the time it's for a childhood friend, a childhood love as they are more commonly known as, I think every one has one, someone they've either dated, or just become best friends, but still everyone's had one. I still know mine actually, and I've been friends with him for years, and it's just been a friendship, and a wonderful one at that, but still, he was one of the first boys I actually liked, and enjoyed hanging out with other then my brother.
Peter Pan (yes, it does all come back to that) was the only one who never truely loved, oh he cared for Wendy, but he would never really love her the way that she wanted. Peter needed Wendy but in a way that he would have someone who was there for him, to share his adventures with, but nothing more. Wendy, I believe truly had feelings for this wild, unruly child but Peter would never have feelings for her. He was (as I stated before) WILD. Completely and utterly wild, never to be tamed by a human, or a mother.
Peter never wanted a mother, that's why he ran away, so he could be young forever and always, but when he met Wendy and brought her to live with him I think the last thing he expected was that she would be so good for him. That she would keep him grounded and make him think about his answers, but I don't think that Wendy expected that she would find her childhood love in Peter. Now a days that's all people want in books, is an epic romance between the two main characters, but what ever happened to just a friendship? A friendship with more meaning then anything, a friendship so powerful that the other would die for them, that's what Peter and Wendy's friendship is.
I want a friendship like that more then anything, where someone who loves me more then they love themselves is willing to give up their lives just to keep me safe. Everything has it's time though right?
When you hear the phrase, "she's your Wendy isn't she?" you instantly think of Peter Pan, because where else in all of literacy is the name Wendy so widely recognized? In Peter Pan, Wendy is his best friend, his companion. Wendy on the other hand was also someone he cherished, someone he cared deeply for, he cried when Wendy grew up, and he fought to try to make her stay in Neverland with him but in end it just wasn't enough, Peter doesn't know that every relationship needs compromise, and theirs was no different. When Peter didn't compromise Wendy did the only thing that she knew, which was to leave, and soon Peter realized what she had done and he was sad, but he tried to get over it, but he never did, that's why he went after Wendy.
We all in away try to hold onto our first loves, our childhood best friends or maybe even our people now. Some stay in contact, maybe talking over the phone every couple of months, or writing letters, (oh wait, you guys mostly use email now don't you?) or some even go the step farther and see each other, but then they're some that make that the big step and maybe keep those feelings for each other, realizing that what they had in when they were children was real and wasn't just something that they made up in their minds. They pursue a relationship and it works, for the most part, it's theirs.
-Birdy
"Wendy will cry but her love will NEVER die, for the boy who taught her how to fly."
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