Aladdin ...a diamond in the rough, a descent character. So, though the power was not his, he was not really going to abuse the power ...at least not too much, and there were conditions where he couldn't abuse it in certain areas anyway. He couldn't make anyone fall in love ...though love did win out.

The 'true love's kiss' ...how many times was that used in the movies??

In the 16th century, William Shakespeare's 'Richard III', the title character uses the phrase "Bear her my true love's kiss" in act 4, scene 4.

In 1697, Mother Goose Tales, written by Charles Perrault, included the concept of a magical true love's kiss from the prince to awaken the princess from her 100-year slumber. The Brothers Grimm used the same motif in their adaptation of 'Sleeping Beauty'.

Another early example of true love's kiss can be found in the Grimms'  ...'The True Bride', in which the heroine breaks the spell over her prince (an evil princess bewitched him to forget her) with true love's kiss. (Not to be confused with the 1987, 'The Princess Bride'.)

Many of you have not heard of the War of 1812 ...but in that same year, Grimm's Fairy Tales published 'The Frog Prince'.

Disney seemed to 'love' the concept:

1937 ---Snow White

1959 ---Sleeping Beauty

1989 ---The Little Mermaid (1837 Hans Christian Andersen)

1991 ---Beauty and the Beast

2007 ---Enchanted

2013 ---Frozen (with Kristoff, not Hans)

[to name a few ...]

Of course, in recent years we have seen criticisms over the concept of 'true love's kiss' ...due to concerns over consent and depictions of kissing asleep persons. Though I think they are more than just asleep ...and perhaps they can look at it as CPR, and the Good Samaritan laws offer legal protection to people who give reasonable assistance to those who are, or whom they believe to be injured, ill, in peril, or otherwise incapacitated.

And even more recently the gender thing has added their crusade to either object or promote their own version of whatever they want to associate with ...and they are driven to break stereotypes.

Don't feel bad if you have never experienced such inflated romance ...or experienced more a bit of a chill, as if you were on a date with Elsa from 'Frozen'. She appears nice, but is afraid and doesn't seem to trust herself. Yet, when Anna is dying, it is Kristoff who shows the love ...much more friendship development by Disney, than many of the earlier criticisms that were leveled over a stranger kissing a random sleeping person.

But, in reality, it is not a 'true love's kiss', but rather a true fantasy ...and does not do justice to 'love'. And I admit that I would (and do) fall short when it comes to love. If it was up to me to do something that important, that everything depended upon what I was going to do ...I would fail. I would fail on my own, that is. Yet, I realize I'm not on my own, and I pray to God ...knowing that He loves me, and that Jesus showed us the truest love, not by a kiss, but by dying for us.