Thursday, May 31, 2007

"I don't want a boa with an elephant inside!"

"If someone loves a flower, of which just one single blossom grows in all the millions and millions of stars. He can say to himself: 'Somewhere, my flower is there...' But if the sheep eats the flower, in one moment all his stars will be darkened..." - Little Prince
We all went through losing somebody so important in our lives. Whether it's a boyfriend/girlfriend, parents, a dog, a big part of us suddenly vanishes. We feel this emptiness, that nothing in this world matter...that we are willing to lose everything that we have, even sell our soul, just to get them back. With millions of people I see everyday in the streets as I take my usual routes, there's only one person I wish to dream of at night. Having somebody to call your own makes good things feels great and makes bad things just fine. The feeling you are needed by this person the same way you needed him makes life full of meaning. When we graduated college, is it only for the sake of earning a diploma and look for a good job? Or, also for the parents who stayed overtime in the office just to send us our allowances the next morning? When people work hard and save up, is it only for the future? Or, is it for the future with? There is always a somebody whom we offer all our achievements in life. We may not admit it but in the back of our minds we are happy that that person appreciated what we've done for them. We suddenly become responsible for their emotions, and everything that person does affects us easily. You become happy with the thought that he/she is happy. Your heart crushes when you feel his/her sorrow and do everything to make him/her happy again. But what will happen when that person go away? Great things are ignored and bad things become worst. All you can see is black and white. Dragging your foot as you walk your usual routes, thinking you shouldn't have woken up. This is what the Little Prince fears, losing the one who gives definition to his life: the rose. The Little Prince waters her, put her inside a glass so that the heat of the sun will not wilt the flower, removes the glass so that the flower can breath, and spend the day pulling out baobabs amidst the thought that someday he will lose her. Losing the rose will make morning just a time of the day the sun rises. There's a Little Prince in all of us, fearsome of losing the people that makes us happy and complete. But some of us don't know how to take care of their roses like what the Little Prince did.
"It is the time you have wasted for your rose that makes your rose so important." - Fox

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