Today is the 2893rd day of intensive reading to accompany you throughout your lifelong growth
01
Can you see the sheep in the box?
"Please... Help me draw a sheep. The little prince from asteroid B612 said.
The reason I say this with certainty is that adults who were once children like to learn about the world through numbers. If I say that I recently knew a prince and wanted a sheep, you must be doubting the truth of his existence.
(I couldn't really paint the sheep he wanted, either a sick sheep or a goat, or I accidentally painted it too old.) After all, my talent for painting was lost when I was 6 years old. ）
Because of the plane crash, in order to be able to repair the plane as soon as possible, I drew a box and said to him, "The sheep you want are in the box."
(The little prince can see sheep and I can't, and maybe I'm a bit like an adult, and I'm definitely getting older.) ）
As you grow older, imagination and curiosity are constantly missing, I don't know if you, who were once children, still retain your original intention, and like the little prince, you can see the sheep in the box.
02
The dangers of baobab trees - beware!
There is a high probability that people will get lost and set foot on an asteroid, but few people know about the harm to baobab trees.
The seed of a bad plant sleeps in the dirt, and one day it suddenly decides to wake up and grow lovely young branches in the sunlight. If you find it too late, you can no longer uproot the baobab tree. It will cover and even split the entire planet.
The place or life we live on is like that planet, and the baobab tree is like our inner dangerous subconscious or bad behavior habits, once rooted in the environment in which we live, it will cause irreparable damage to our lives.
Be wary of dangers, as they are usually well disguised.
03
Separation from flowers: People fall in love with sunsets when they are sad
"One day," you said, "I watched forty-four sunsets!" ”
After a moment you say, "You know, when people are sad, they fall in love with the sunset." ”
Little prince, you must have been very sad that day, right?
The other day you asked me ," do sheep eat flowers?" Do you even eat thorny flowers? ”
When you say, "If someone falls in love with a flower, there are billions of stars in the sky, and this flower grows on only one of them, it is enough to make him happy when he looks up at the night sky." He would tell himself: 'Somewhere in the starry sky there is my flower', but if the sheep eat the flowers, it means that all the stars are suddenly extinguished for him! I just learned that you were in love with a flower.
The little prince always took her words seriously, but many words she just said casually, which made the little prince very unhappy.
When the little prince was determined to leave, the flowers said to him:
"I love you, but you don't know anything, it's my fault." ......
"I wish you happiness, and I'm willing to put up with two or three caterpillars, because I want to know butterflies." I heard that butterflies are beautiful. Otherwise who will visit me? You're going to go far away. As for the big animals, I am not afraid, I have claws "...
In the face of love, people always try to snoop, rather than truly expressing their own thoughts. Over time, small conflicts accumulated and finally broke out, and both sides were injured.
Since then, the two injured people have no longer revealed their hearts to each other and spent time together figuring with each other.
But no matter how close the person is, they are not themselves, and they cannot truly know what the other party really wants, which will inevitably lead to a lose-lose situation in the long run.
One day, you look back and realize that he is ready to leave, and you are still pretending to be strong.
Once you were his only one, and now he needs to leave his planet and explore the earth, where there are thousands of flowers that look like you, and you are no longer the only one.
Hua'er's past temperament and now's strength must be understood and understood by everyone who has experienced it. Love always allows both parties to grow.
May you meet your own little prince at the best of moments, the little prince who can see you as a unique rose.
04
The story of the little prince and the fox
"What does 'domestication' mean?"
"It's something that is often forgotten," said the fox, "and it means 'creating relationships.'" ”
The fox said, "To me, you are nothing more than a child, no different from thousands of other children." I don't need you. You don't need me either. To you, I am nothing more than a fox, no different from thousands of other foxes. But if you domesticate me, we will need each other, you are unique to me, I am unique to you..."
The fox said:
"For example, if you set to come at four o'clock in the afternoon, then at three o'clock I will start to be happy." The closer the time came, the happier I became. By four o'clock I would have been agitated and restless; I had discovered the price of happiness. But if you're at a different time every day, I don't know when to expect you... We need rituals. ”
When we establish a certain connection (create a relationship) with others, we become the only one with each other.
The sense of ritual in life gives the other party expectations, and the closer the time is, the more tormented it is, which is the price of happiness.
When the little prince came again to the rose garden before parting ways with the fox, he said:
"Ordinary passers-by will think that my roses are similar to yours, but she is more important than all of you combined."
For I have watered her; for I have covered her with a glass cover; for I have shielded her from the wind; for I have exterminated caterpillars for her (but left three live openings so that they may become butterflies); for I have listened to her complaints and boasting, and even sometimes to her silence; for she is my rose. ”
He understood the meaning of love, even though there were thousands of identical roses in the world, but only on his planet, the rose that he had paid for and admired was the only rose in his heart.
The little prince went back to the fox, and the fox said, "This is my secret. It's simple: you can only see things clearly if you look at them with your heart. Important things are invisible with the eye. ”
Seeing is believing, and experience tells us that it is most real in most cases. But there are some things that are not felt through the heart, and they tend to ignore or miss the most important things around them. By the time I figured it out, it was too late.
Mother's love, father's love, love, affection, friendship, stop and see if you have forgotten it somewhere.
French writer Antoine. morality. Saint-Exupéry's The Little Prince, a fairy tale that illustrates the various points of view of philosophy, love, and the critique of adults losing themselves on the way to growing up, has a different harvest in each reading.
When we are desperately running forward, when we are lost in the journey, may you look up at the sky and look forward to your encounter with the little prince, looking for the shining star.
Author: Mibu Milu, a member of the Intensive Reading Club. Habitually like to read quietly, and can be very crazy Gemini.