Peter Pan knew Wendy's value

Peter Pan, the iconic figure of never growing up, the adorable rogue who showed Wendy all there was to know about being free, knew more than just how to be a perpetual boy king of Never Never Land. He cleverly knew at first sight, the value of this young lady verifying her worth at her first questioning of her presence in his world.

"Wendy,’ Peter Pan continued in a voice that no woman has ever yet been able to resist, ‘Wendy, one girl is more use than twenty boys."

J. M. Barrie wrote the most profound piece of literature that has ever graced our planet, one that speaks volumes to every age. One that so much more can be learned from than pirates, fairies, and the reclamation of youth. It was, on so many levels, a testament to the man who wrote it, and his philosophies on life. He believed that "If you have it [love], you don't need to have anything else, and if you don't have it, it doesn't matter much what else you have."

While he himself suffered an ill-fated marriage that left him embittered, one of his best plays was What Every Woman Knows. The play from 1908, while wrought with irony, illustrated the idea that no man can become much without the help of a woman. He seemed to never put much chauvinism towards women, in fact it would seem he had a great respect for the position of being a mother.

He relished the mischeviousness of a woman's ways young and old: "Oh, you mysterious girls, when you are fifty-two we shall find you out; you must come into the open then. If the mouth has fallen sourly yours the blame: all the meanness your youth concealed have been gathering in your face. But the pretty thoughts and sweet ways and dear, forgotten kindnesses linger there also, to bloom in your twilight like evening primroses."

He described the measure of a woman's mind as such: "She was a lovely lady, with a romantic mind and such a sweet mocking mouth. Her romantic mind was like the tiny boxes, one within the other, that come from the puzzling East, however many you discover there is always one more.."

And he knew exactly what was charm, especially the charm of a woman: "it's a sort of bloom on a woman. If you have it, you don't need to have anything else; and if you don't have it, it doesn't much matter what else you have. Some women, the few, have charm for all; and most have charm for one. But some have charm for none."

Wise beyond his years, and ever the benevolent soul, J. M. Barrie was able to give Peter Pan a reason to fight. A little boy with no care in the world, save an unruly shadow, was forever changed by the unconditional love of Wendy.

Men, no one ever asks you to grow up, not as long as you know what you have and you show how much it means to you. There is not a woman in the world who would deny the man she loves of anything even the hot rod, or the hours of video games, if she knew that in every way she was loved and appreciated. She might even fly out a window with you.