Wednesday, November 7, 2007

Not someone's rose yet

An excerpt from The Little Prince -

' "You are beautiful, but you are empty," he went on. "One could not die for you. To be sure, an ordinary passerby would think my rose looked just like you - the rose that belongs to me. But in herself alone she is more important than all the hundreds of you other roses : because it is she that I have watered ; because it is she that I have put under the glass globe ; because it is she that i have sheltered behind the screen ; because it is for her that I have killed the caterpillars (except the two or three we have saved to become butterflies) ; because it is she that I have listened to, when she grumbled, or boasted, or even sometimes when she said nothing. Because she is my rose."

The little prince was speaking to a rose bush, wherein lied many many beautiful roses who surprised him because he had believed his rose was the only unique one in all universe. Although he felt deceived at first, he then went on to learn a great lesson in life, that he loved his rose because he had spent so much time on her. The moving speech he gave to the other roses really gave me insight into what having a relationship with someone you love was like.

Go and read The Little Prince. It's really a long parable on life.

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