"It's how you know you really got a home. When you leave it there's this feeling you can't shake. You just miss it."
All you need is Faith, Hope and Trust….Oh...A little something I forgot...Dust. Yes, dust. Pixie Dust. Now...Just think some happy thoughts and you will float off the floor. Now you can fly and we can follow that Second Star to the Right Straight on Till Morning!
Yes, you heard me. I just told you we are going to Neverland. But I must warn you, there will be Pirates, and mermaids, and buried treasure, and more fun than anyone can every hope to have. And you want to know a secret? You never have to grow up.
Well that is what we were taught as children, what our parents read to us at bedtime. What we dreamt of at night and acted out with our siblings and friends. Jumping from bed to bed, pretending to fly to Neverland. Fighting the one-handed pirate named Hook. Well, Neverland has a darker history than glittering pixie dust. Neverland is called such because it is a Never Land. Children stay children. They do not age and they do not have children. Whatever adults find themselves there, stay adults and sometimes do battle with the “ Lost
Boys' ” army and their leader.
Peter Pan wasn’t the impish little boy who ran away from home because he just didn’t want to grow up. He was actually an adult once. He went by the name of Malcom and was the town drunk that cheated and gambled. He also had a child, but he gave that little boy up. This son loved his Papa so much that when he got the chance to try and save his Papa by taking him to a new world to start over, he did so. With a magic bean, Malcom and his son left the world they knew for a new one, Never Land.
Upon arrival in this Never Land, Malcom remembered from his childhood that you could fly, but then he realized you could only fly as a child. For you see only children have true magic and hearts of belief. Wanting this for himself, for Malcom was so very selfish, he let the shadow that lived on the island of this Never Land remove his son, returning him to the world in wence they had come from. Thus, changing before his fading son’s eyes, Malcom no longer stood as an dult. He was now and forevermore, a teenager clothed in green, known as Peter Pan.
For years Pan searched for the heart of the truest believer, gathering boys and girls he believed to be the one who would restore his fading powers. He gathered loyal children to him, his very own ‘Lost Boys’, who would taunt the pirates that had appeared in the Never Seas one day. It became a type of game for Pan and the boys to steal aboard the ship, The Jolly Roger, and have battles of swords and words with the ship’s captain, Killian Jones, or as Pan dubbed him, Captain Hook or Cod Fish.
One day, by sheer luck, Pan did find the one he had searched for so long for. Only this believer had people who believed in him. They followed him to Never Land and brought him home and thus ended the rein of the one named Peter Pan. While Pan may not rule this island of Never Land any more, it does still exist. Pirates may still sail the Never Seas, mermaids swim in the lagoons. Waterfalls cascade to show off rainbows and treasures are buried that Indians guard. Trees thrive that pixies help to grow pixie dust from. All of this can be found on this island called Never Land.
