the little Princess

Let me tell you a story.

Once upon a time, in a world full of planets, each planet lives a person. There's one little girl named Princess, lives on this particular planet. She wants to go to Earth. So, she left her rose in her planet and went off to Earth. Along the way to Earth, she visited other planets and met some very odd grown-ups.

First, she met a King. A King who claims to rule over the world with absolute power. However, nobody listens to him. The King lives by giving odd orders, for example ordering the sun to set, to satisfy his thirst for power. When Princess arrived at the King, she is not fooled. She did not take his order and leave.

Then she met a conceited man. The conceited man sees himself as the handsomest, richest, and the most intelligent man in the world. Everyone admires him and loves him. In fact, he is all alone in that planet. Yet he wished to be admired and applaued. Princess is perplexed with such vanity and left to another planet.

In the third planet, she met a businessman. He is a large gentleman who is very very busy until he doesnt even have the time to light up his cigarette. He spends his time counting the stars, which he claims to own. Princess  sees the businessman as wasting his life, not using what he owns by writing down the numbers in the bank. Princess is again, finds the grown-ups to be very disappointing.

At last, Princess reached Earth. No one is there. No humans, no other living things. Then, a snake came and lied to the little girl that if she allows the snake to bite her, she can go back to her planet and her rose. Only then, Princess realised, what she wants and what she needs is different. Important things in life are visible only to the heart, that is her time away from the rose makes the rose more special to Princess. The love, that makes a person responsible for the beings that one loves.

The end.

ps. wait, did she returned to her planet?        

to be continued...             x)

story modified from Le Petit Prince