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姓  名 李紹嘉 學  校 國立台南女子高級中學 年  級 一 年 十七 班

 

 

Meet The Little Prince In Your Heart

Confused. This was how I felt when I first read The Little Prince when I was 10 years old. For a kid as the one I used to be, there was nothing more important than a cloud wandering the sky, and the freedom outside of the class. It sounds ironic, however; I came to realize the meaning behind the book gradually when I grew up; I am now a 15-year-old teenager, neither a grown-up nor a child.

“It is only with the heart that one can see rightly; what is essential is invisible to the eye.” I was astonished when discovering the secret the fox kept. It is something I almost forget when I am busy with my schoolwork and learning how to pretend to be an adult, being cautious and careful. I couldn’t nearly hear the sound from the bottom of my heart, walking on the way people expect me to go. What am I pursuing and looking for? Life tends to be as difficult and complicated as a math question, but actually, it is very simple, as the fox told the little prince. It is a class that everyone has learned: to follow your heart. To follow what you are fond of; to follow the star that lights up your world and gives you direction so that one day when you look up at the sky, you can also feel the sweetness in the laughter of all stars.

One thing touching me the most is Little Prince’s loyalty to his rose and his innocence. “The stars are beautiful, because of a flower that cannot be seen.” From the suspicious at first to the affectionate at last, no one could love as deeply as the little prince. There are thousands of roses in one garden, yet no one is as important as the rose he spent his times on; there are billions of people in the world who all look like the same, but we become unique because of someone who loves us and someone we love.

Sometimes we may be as proud and inconsistent as the rose, hiding our feeling but allowing someone we love to misunderstand and run away from us. Then it occurs to me that It is so lucky for the rose that there was the little prince who loved her so much that he wanted to get back to find her by all means; it is so sorrowful that once upon a time there was a person who deeply loved her but she lost him. What the little prince taught us after he had realized in his journey is to treasure people you love; never lose her/him again.

Something that we believe is simple is actually deep. The author uses easy words to elaborate his life principle. Before reading the book, we might think children are childish; however, we later figure out who the blind one is. Grown-ups are like the businessman who always counts how much stars they own and is never satisfied with what they have, the drunkard who tries to escape from the reality, or the lamplighter who follows orders but does not exactly know how to accommodate himself to life. Only children who follow their heart know what they are looking for. The little prince exists exactly in everyone’s heart. This tiny little guy sometimes pops out to remind us of what we precisely feel. One day, when we feel there is missing in life or too tired to walk any farther, look up at the sky. There is a star shining brightly where the little prince lives with a flower carefully covered with a glass globe. And when we laugh smoothly as the pilot, we will find the key to the source of joy.