I was wandering the Internet looking for sipandgogirl.com inspiration and ran across an article about the greatest love stories of all time.
Included in the list were obvious people like Rick and Ilsa from “Casablanca” and Romeo and Juliet. Another couple included was King Shahryar and Scheherezade.
That’s pronounced ‘Shuh-hair-uh-zawd.’
You might need a reminder. Scheherezade was the woman who narrated “Arabian Nights,” the collection of Persian, Indian, and Arabian tales. “Arabian Nights” includes the stories of Alladdin and Ali Baba. The tales are sometimes called “Thousand and One Nights.”
I’m Scheherezade.
The legend is that King Shahryar discovered his wife had been dilly-dallying with another man. The king has her executed her and seeks vengeance on every women. He enacts his revenge against females by marrying a different woman every day. He spends the wedding night with her and then has her executed in the morning.
When she found she was to be married to the King, Scheherezade was determined to avoid the fate of the others.
The night of her wedding with the king, she starts telling him a tale. It was a woundrous tale indeed. But with the first glow of dawn, Scheherezade stops telling him the story. The king was so terribly intrigued by the story and desperate for the ending that he stays her execution.
But as soon as Scheherezade finished that story, the clever and creative woman started another story that was equally as thrilling and intriguing. Just like the night before, she stops near dawn without finishing the tale.
This goes on for a thousand and one nights. I did the math. If we go by today’s calendar system, that’s more than 2.5 years of stories.
By then, the King is in love with Scheherezade and she lives to keep telling the tales.
I must be the reincarnation of Scheherezade. I have tale after tale to tell in a dramatic and fun way. And I just know that I will have more tales as time goes on.
I got one thousand and TWO tales!
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