The Little Prince might have lost a friend on the day of forty-four sunsets. Losing a friend is such a sad, forlorn and painful experience, that one wonders if it is worth the risk of making and establishing future friendship ties.
Mere acquaintances may come and go without much effect on the daily sequence of events in one's life, while friends have a unique way of disrupting and completely messing-up one's schedule. The mood of the day can suddenly change with a friend's urgent call for assistance that causes immediate feeling of concern, or the casual messages of greetings and hellos that somehow brightens up the day.
The good times shared together with friends, providing hope to each others dreams and wishes, spicing-up one's lethargic life and humdrum existence, can somehow create an illusion that friendship will last forever ...but like all things in life (including friends)...these are all ephemeral, like a flower that blooms today and will wither tomorrow.
Friendship is best left to children who have the natural ability and talent to make friends. Imagine a group of children, even if they are of different races or language, will immediately become friends with each other at no time at all. It never cease to amaze me to observe children playing at the park or any play area (such as those found in a fast food chains) that they instantaneously become friends, even though it is the very first time that they meet with each other. Such innocence, such openness...such a peaceful and joyful world to live-in.
And who causes the mess and problems in children's life...the GROWN-UPS, of course! These grown-ups are like those that the Little Prince have met in his adventures....conceited men, drunkards, businessmen...just to name a few. They (grown-ups) think that they were always concerned with matters of great consequences, that they totally mix-up their priorities. They think they know what they are looking for, but most of them are confused and clueless on what they really want to do with their lives. And yes, grown-ups loves FIGURES! They love figures soooo much that they measure and do everything with numbers....age, height, weight, vital statistics, calories, scores, profit, income, credit limits, mobile numbers, frequent flier mileage, salaries, etc.
I guess i've already grown-up and become so engrossed with figures...and in so doing, have abandoned being childlike...and have lost a friend in the process.
