After experiencing many people and aftermath, reading "The Little Prince" in middle age, I was shocked a lot in my heart, although the times are different, but the book can always find the shadow of real life, and many questions that haunt the heart seem to be able to find answers from the book. I think that's one of the reasons it's enduring.
Don't forget, we used to be children too
The pilot didn't know how to see the sheep inside through the box, and he sighed: "Maybe I'm a bit like an adult, I'm definitely old." ”
The pilot in the book repeatedly took the "Painting No. 1" and "Painting No. 2" to the adults, and each time the adults read it, they strongly recommended that he concentrate on learning geography, history, arithmetic and French. Because adults think that these things are the most important thing for children. Originally, he wanted to become a painter when he was 6 years old, but he never painted, he said that it was all because of the adults, they did not understand or attach importance to the children's ideas, but blindly told the children to do what they thought was serious.
Every adult has been a child, and has had many fantasies, but we don't know when we lost that childlike heart.
Think back to yourself, did you grow up with the same experience as a pilot? Did he give up his hobby in a series of incomprehensions? Have you been doing what adults think is right? We grew up slowly, and we slowly collected our precious childlike hearts. Carefully blend in with the adult circles.
Now as parents, we have become adults who blindly preach, nagging children every day that they should study well, as if nothing else is important except learning.
Fortunately, "The Little Prince" made me reflect that growth and childlike heart are not exclusive, please do not oppose them. To awaken our childlike hearts, we must take good care of our children's children's hearts, listen to their interesting stories about life, and take them closer to nature. You will find that the happiness of children is really simple, a joke, a mimosa, a wall climbing tiger and a cloud of fire in the sky... These ordinary things are enough to make them happy all day, and we were once such simple contentment, but we just forgot about it.
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Loneliness is the norm in life, learn to enjoy it
The little prince said, "It's really lonely to be alone in the desert..."
"Also lonely in the crowd." The snake said.
Yes, the little prince was on his own planet, alone in that lonely, pathetic life.
Pilots have always lived alone among the adults, alone, unable to find a person in the adult world who can talk to themselves.
There were also proud kings, vain men, poor drunkards, stubborn lamplighters, busy merchants and idle geographers, these little princes met on six planets, all of whom were lonely.
Some people say that life is a lonely journey. Even though you will encounter all kinds of people during your journey, you are the only one who can accompany you to the end. Since loneliness follows everywhere, let's make friends with loneliness and learn to enjoy the loneliness and comfort that belongs to us.
Zhou Guoping said: "Only if you dare to be lonely can you enjoy the fullness of life." ”
03
Love needs to be felt with the heart and responsible for the end
After the little prince left his asteroid, he realized how much he loved his rose, and he said that at that time he did not know how to judge according to its behavior, but only saw the vanity and willfulness on the surface of the rose.
Later, the little prince met the fox, who told the little prince a secret: essential things, which are invisible with the eyes.
"It took so much time on your roses that your roses became so important to you."
"You must be responsible for what you have domesticated to the end, and you must be responsible for your roses..."
The fox's words made the little prince determined to return to his planet, because he had learned to feel the love of the rose with his heart, and he also understood that he was responsible for his rose.
Once upon a time, like the little prince, we didn't know how to feel love, so we made the wrong decision.
I remember the year I first came out to work, I often worked overtime until very late to come home, but whenever I came home, the lights at home were always on. At first, I thought that my parents forgot to turn off the lights, but then I changed to work and went home very early. Dad said, "It's good to come back early, so that your mother doesn't have to wait for you to come home every day, and you don't have to leave a lamp for you." "It turned out that my mother deliberately left a light for me every day, and it was sure that I could sleep peacefully when I got home. These are very small things in ordinary life, but if we don't have the heart to experience it, where do we know that our parents love us so much.
"The desert is so beautiful because there is a well that people can't see..."
I think that life is so beautiful because there is a kind of love that we can't see, but can feel.