little Prince

Chapter 22

When the little prince was crying, a fox came running out of nowhere.

"Hello." The fox greeted the little prince.

"Hello." The little prince replied politely.But when he turned around, he saw nothing.

"Here I am, under the apple tree," said the voice.

"Who are you?" The little prince lowered his head and saw a creature he had never seen before. "You are beautiful."

"I am a fox," said the fox.

"Come and play with me," suggested the little prince, "I am very distressed..."

"I cannot play with you," said the Fox, "I am not yet tamed."

"Ah! I'm so sorry," said the little prince.

The little prince thought for a while, then he asked the fox: "What do you mean by 'tame'?"

"You're not from here, are you?" said the fox. "What are you looking for here?"

"I'm here to find someone," said the little prince. "What do you mean by 'tame'?"

"Man, you look for man," said the fox. "They have guns, and they hunt, and they'll give us trouble! Their only saving grace is that they keep chickens. Are you looking for chickens, too?"

"No," said the little prince, "I came to Earth to find someone to be my friend. So what is 'tame'?"

"It's something that's been forgotten," Fox said. "It means 'connection.'"

"build connection?"

"That's right," said the fox, "to me you're just a little boy like a thousand other little boys. I don't need you. You don't need me either. To you I'm Is but one fox, like a thousand other foxes. But if you tame me, we shall be connected and indispensable to each other. To me you are the only master of the world; As far as you are concerned, it is the only fox in the world."

"I understand a little bit," said the little prince. "On my planet there is a flower... I think it has tamed me..."

"It is quite possible," said the fox. "Anything in the world can happen."

"But this is not what happened on earth," said the little prince.

The fox felt very strange, "On another planet?"

"Yes."

"On that planet, are there hunters?"

"No."

"That would be interesting. So, any chickens?"

"No."

"Sure enough, nothing is perfect in the world."

said the fox with a sigh.

The fox brought the topic back again: "My life is very monotonous. I catch chickens to eat, and people catch me so that I won't catch chickens. All chickens are the same, and all people are the same. Therefore, I'm getting a little bored."

But if you tame me, my life will brighten up.

"If you had tamed me, I would have recognized a distinct footstep, your footsteps. Other footsteps would have made me hide in the ground, but your footsteps would, like music, I called out of the hole."

"Also, look! Do you see the wheat field over there?"

"I don't eat bread, and wheat is of no use to me. I have no feeling for wheat fields. But you have golden hair. Well, it will be wonderful once you tame me. Wheat, yes Golden yellow, I think of you when I see it. I even like to hear the wind rustle the wheat..."

After the fox finished speaking, he fell silent and looked at the little prince for a long time. After that, he said, "Please tame me!"

"I would like to," replied the little prince, "but my time here is short. I still have to find someone who can be my friend, and there are many things to know and learn."

"Only what is tamed can you fully understand it," said the fox. "People don't spend time understanding what they haven't tamed. They don't grow things themselves, they always go to the merchant to buy ready-made things." Since there is no store in the world to buy a friend, man has no friends. If you want a friend, tame me!"

"Then what should I do?" said the little prince.

"First of all, you have to be very patient," replied the fox. "In the beginning you just sat in the grass, a little far away from me. I watched you out of the corner of my eye, and you didn't have to say anything. Words come and go." The source of misunderstanding. But, every day, you have to sit closer to me..."

The next day, the little prince came again according to what the fox said.

"You'd better come at the original time."

The fox said, "For example, if you come at four o'clock in the afternoon, then from three o'clock, I will start to feel happy. Because waiting for the one I love is a happy thing. The closer the time is, the happier I will be." .At four o'clock, I will be fidgeting, I will think why you have not come; I will find that being tamed by you will pay the price of happiness. But if you come at any time, I will not Knowing when to prepare my mood."

"There should be a certain ritual for you to tame me."

"What is the ceremony?" the little prince asked.

"It's also a thing that has long been forgotten."

Said the Fox, "It is the convention that makes one day different from other days, and one hour from other hours. For example, the hunters who captured me had a ritual. They danced with the girls of the village every Thursday. So Thursday is a good day! I can walk all the way to the vineyards, and no one catches me. If the hunters danced every day, and every day was the same, the holidays would mean nothing to me."

In this way, slowly, the little prince tamed the fox.

When the time of departure nearly came, said the fox, "I think I shall cry."

"It's all your fault," said the little prince, "I didn't mean to cause you any pain, but you want me to tame you..."

"That's the way it is," said the fox.

"But you are going to cry!" said the little prince.

"Of course," said the fox, "you have tamed me, and I am in love with you, and I shall cry when you leave me."

"Then you get nothing."

"I got it, look at the color of the wheat, every time I see it, I think of you, I know the taste of love, and I get the benefits." Said the fox, "Go and look at the roses again. This time you will understand that your flower is indeed a unique rose in the world. When you come back to say goodbye to me, I will give you another secret."

So the little prince went to the garden to see the roses again.

This time, when the little prince saw the roses in the garden, he suddenly understood the meaning of what the fox said to him.

"You are nothing like my rose, you are nothing to me!" said the little prince to them.

"No one has tamed you, and you have tamed no one else. You are like my fox, which was just a fox like thousands of other foxes. But I have now regarded it as my own. friend, so for me it is now unique in the world."

At this time, those roses looked very embarrassed.

"You are beautiful, but you are empty. Above all, you are just flowers to me." The little prince continued, "No one can die for you. Of course, my rose, an ordinary Passers-by also think it is the same as you. However, she is more important to me than all of you, because I watered and cared for it and grew up. I will find a cover to protect it, and cover her in a flower cover I will prepare the screen because it is afraid of the wind; I will be anxious because it has caterpillars. I have listened to its complaints and pride, and sometimes I have even listened to its silence. Because it is my rose."

After the little prince finished speaking, he returned to the fox.

"Good-bye," said the little prince to the fox.

"Goodbye," said the fox. "Here, here is my secret. It's very simple: only the heart can see clearly. What is essential is invisible to the eyes. Only with the heart can you see the essence of things."

"Substantial things are invisible to the eyes." The little prince repeated this sentence, so that he could keep it in his heart.

"It's the time you put into your rose that makes your rose you so important."

"Because you have spent time on your rose..." the little prince repeated, trying to make himself remember this.

"People have forgotten this truth," said the Fox, "but you should not forget it. You are now responsible to the end for everything you have tamed. You are responsible for your roses..."

"I am responsible for my rose..." the little prince repeated...

(End of this chapter)