Le Petit Prince

The other day, I was reading "le petit prince" (小王子) to baby,

Well… maybe you think that I'm ambitious, but I don't think so, just have to let her get use to holding a book, reading a book, ie. a book ^_^

Anyway…

"le petit prince", is so-called the second best-seller after the bible…, (go wiki it)

I've read a few chapters to her, where prince went to different planets, met different type of habitants, (ie. in our language, different type of people) but then…

When prince reached, the earth, met a fox, this is the interesting part, and that I'd like to share…

Prince asked fox, where were the human beings? He's been looking for one, when he arrived at earth…

And fox was bringing him round and round, and chit-chat with him, with no firm answer yet..

Then, fox brought him to a field of roses…

And prince was astonished!!

Cos, back in the little planet he owns, he's 1 rose, and 3 knee-high volcano… and he's been told by the rose over and over again, that, she's the ONLY rose in the whole world!!

So, he's pretty 'shocked' when he saw a big field, full of roses…

He became a little bit upset because of that, cos, all this while, he thought he owns a rose, which is the ONLY one in the whole world, and maybe he felt kinda cheated…

Then, fox told him something else…

When he asked fox on whereabouts to find any human,

Suddenly fox was telling him that, he (the fox) has not been tamed/trained by any human yet… 馴養…

Then, prince asked fox, what does this mean,

Fox said,

"it's called building relationship between the two of us,"

Prince then asked, what's "building relationship", ie. 建立關係。

"well, to you, I'm just a fox, just like all the other fox, I mean nothing to you, and you also mean nothing to me, cos, you're just like all the other human being, just a human being, but then, if you choose to train/tame me, then, you're somebody to me, and I'm your only fox,"

Immediately, prince was enlightened!! He then thought about his dear rose, back in his planet far far away…

Then, he murmured to himself, "hm… then, I guess, the rose has tamed/trained me well…"

Yep… that's the interesting part that I thought I wanna mark it…

Ie. building relationship…

Ah… we're just like anybody, and no different from anybody, before, A RELATIONSHIP IS BUILT UP between us, and the other person…

Also have 2 eyes, 1 nose, 1 mouth, maybe slight different voice, slightly bigger ass, etc. but then, no difference…

But when there's relationship, we mean… probably the whole world, to the other person, vice versa…

Isn't it sweet??