Why is The Little Prince suitable for everyone, but not for reality?

Regarding the book The Little Prince, I always feel that in the eyes of children, this book records the adventures of the little prince, while in the eyes of adults, this book is the "hand" that opens the "fig leaf" of the adult world.

When people grow up, they will do many things that they can't control. For example, they laugh not because they want to, but because they need to "laugh". For another example, the communication between adults is becoming more and more polite on the surface, but more and more alienated in private.

When this "involuntary" becomes "ordinary" in the adult world, adults have probably forgotten the appearance of "fairy tales".

For Yan Xiaoer, The Little Prince is a book that reminds me of fairy tales. There are too many characters in this book that adults in the real world have to avoid, experience or are experiencing.

People need milk and bread to live, so the world can't be a fairy tale. As an adult fairy tale, The Little Prince is suitable for you, me, him and even everyone to read, but it can't be used as the "Bible" of our life. This is probably the charm of "fairy tales", or the sadness of adults' real life.

But in any case, The Little Prince is worth reading, because you will find that reading is not only a fantasy story, but also a dialogue with our "true self".

For example, Yan Xiaoer read that the little prince met the "narrator" in the book, and I saw the "adult" who expected innocence.

For example, Yan Xiaoer read about the acquaintance and separation between the little prince and the rose, and Yan Xiaoer saw the beautiful regret that the sincere man was too "real" and too "personal" when he was young.

For another example, when Yan Xiaoer read Snake, he suddenly found something that made me feel sorry: in the adult world, the stronger you are, the more lonely you are.

(1) Narrator: An "adult" who expects innocence. In the novel, the narrator tells about his meeting with the little prince and their friendship.

The narrator in the novel is a pilot who likes fantasy.

Unlike the little prince, he is an adult, and unlike a "standard" adult, he is an "imaginative" adult. He likes to get along with unrestrained children, and doesn't like formal adult social interaction.

The pilot was in trouble during the flight. He landed in the desert and met the little prince. The encounter with the little prince made him regain his courage in the "trouble" he was encountering. But at the same time of courage, we have to part ways with the "little prince".

Perhaps everyone who reads The Little Prince is one of the "narrators": the world of adults is not as interesting as childhood imagined, and it is easy to get into trouble. When troubles are inevitable and even make people want to give up, we may immerse ourselves in them and seek comfort, which may come from our sincere "expectation" or even the "innocence" of sleeping.

Sometimes, Yan Xiaoer can't help but think that perhaps the "fairy tale" in our hearts is the source of power for us to "rally" in countless forced landings.

(2) Roses: the beautiful regrets left by "personality" in those years. There is another character in The Little Prince that impressed me deeply, and that is "Ross".

"Rose" is very much like the teenager in "Seeds of Love" in my memory. She is a bit "melodramatic", but she is persistent in dependence, desire and love. How many opportunities can a person have in this life, or how many times can he muster up the courage to devote himself wholeheartedly?

We have to admit that growth makes us more and more "timid" and less and less "courageous" to devote ourselves wholeheartedly.

The rose in The Little Prince loved the little prince deeply, and they had a wonderful time together. However, roses are for the little prince. It showed the little prince its "beauty" and its character defects. And this "defect" made the heat in the rose's heart unable to completely touch the little prince, which eventually led to the little prince's departure.

Roses are like pure and naked love that we only have once in our lives. This kind of love is attractive but full of distress. Looking back many years later, this memory is like a fairy tale because it is "true", and even regret has become "beautiful" here.

At the same time, the rose in The Little Prince also made me realize that the so-called growth is probably that people are more and more adapted and will "hide" more and more. What are you hiding? Hide the truest "self".

This is the "regret" of growth, and it is also an inevitable "regret". How can I live without regret?

(3) Snakes: In the real world, when people are lonely, people will become stronger. One of the characters that impressed me most was "snake".

The little prince met a snake on the earth. The snake told the little prince that he was lonely, so the little prince judged that the snake was weak.

The snake told the little prince that he had mastered the mystery of life. Later, the snake bit the little prince and sent him back to heaven.

So, are snakes really weak?

In the real world, the stronger a person is, the easier it is to be lonely, which just corresponds to the old saying "it is too cold at the top".

Snakes are "strong" in the real world, but they are extremely "weak" in "fairy tales" and "innocence" of all of us.

Life in the fairy tale world must be happy and full.

The role of "snake" here, in Yan Xiaoer's view, also implies that the real world and the fairy tale world are two worlds after all. The "strong" in the real world may be the "weak" in the fairy tale world.

Because there is no "loneliness" in the fairy tale world, the strong in the real world are often "very lonely" because they are too "awake" to "play dumb" here.

What does it mean to stay awake in the adult world? You probably already have the answer in your heart.

So too many people are saying "it's hard to be confused".

(4) The Little Prince: a fairy tale that is not applicable to reality but is worth reading by all adults. In Yan Xiaoer's eyes, many truths in The Little Prince belong to "seeing through without breaking" in the adult world. We can be narrators of forced landing in the desert. Maybe we used to be sentimental roses and even turned into "too sober" snakes, but we can't be "little princes".

In real life, the little prince in the fairy tale world will not survive, which is the cruelty of reality.

But this cruelty just gave birth to the little prince.

According to records, The Little Prince was a work during World War II. Due to the influence of the war, the author's childhood life is not very glorious, but "greedy for vanity" and lifeless, very boring and even empty.

Here, the author created The Little Prince, which describes the "real world" of adults from the perspective of children, thus guiding people to reflect on their own lives, helping them remember the forgotten "innocence", and then becoming an "adult" with warmth and dreams, who can be taken as an example by children.

We are now in an era with very good material conditions, but instead, with the rapid development of society, people's body and mind are separated, people sink into the material world, and then forget to repair their "spiritual home", which is gradually swallowed up by the so-called "interests" and "desires" in the adult world, and the meaning of life is cast a shadow.

This is a very regrettable thing.

Here, Yan Xiaoer wants to say that when you are exhausted in work and life and feel "breathing difficulties", you might as well read The Little Prince. Although the little prince's lifestyle can't make us apply what we have learned, and it is difficult to practice it in real life, it is enough to awaken the "innocence" in our chest, guide us to reflect and find the forgotten treasure in reflection.

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