Unasked Questions & Unexpected Answers: How to defeat a dragon?

When I was a little girl and didn't know how true princesses should behave, I fought dragons, clearing paths for princes, because I thought that helping was good. The guys came who - with their good manners, their beautiful hairdos and their wide smiles - looked every bit the princes I imagined them to be. They talked, they sang, they showed tricks. But as time passed, they grew tired of pretending and showed their true colors: they turned out to be deceivers, thieves, they turned out to be lazy or just looking for some free entertainment. I was very surprised by this and even cried sometimes. Once I even decided that princes do not exist in real life, only in fairy tales.

Then I grew up and realized that the point of the process is for princes to fight dragons, and that this is the only way for them to grow from weak aggressive egoists and beggars into real heroes and emperors - by defeating their inner dragons.

Now I love dragons dearly: they sacrifice their lives so that the guys have a chance to become emperors. And dragons surrender to real princesses without weapons - for love.