Take a look at Drawing Number One. Does it frighten you? I bet you would say “Why should anyone be frightened by a hat?” Actually, that’s a common response of a grown-up. Not until we uncover the truth behind that masterpiece.

“Grown-ups never understand anything by themselves, and it is tiresome for children to be always and forever explaining things to them.”
~Antoine de Saint-Exupéry (The Little Prince)

Quick judgment. That’s how grown-ups act most of the time. No wonder we are living in a world of misunderstandings and misconceptions. We limit ourselves only to what our eyes can see that often leads to prejudice and narrow-mindedness.

 Now, here’s Drawing Number Two:

Now, did you get the whole picture? That’s a revised version of Drawing Number One.

Clearly, it’s not just a hat but a boa constrictor digesting an elephant. Now, there’s a reason to be scared right?

Pictures have limits; especially to those who have lost curiosity and imagination.

Countless times, grown-ups can only recognize what is obvious and forgot to see what’s beyond. Seems that they’ve lost the essence of imagination, because they are more attached to what is quantifiable.

Remember, that there are some hidden truths behind a picture that our eyes can see, what is essential is invisible to the eye, and can be detected only by our hearts and mind.

**Illustrations are based on Antoine de Saint-Exupéry’s most popular and best-selling novella - The Little Prince (1943).

Favorite Quotes from The Little Prince:

“Conceited people never hear anything but praise.”

“The one thing I love in life is to sleep.”
~The Lamplighter

“When one wishes to play the wit, he sometimes wanders a little from the truth.”

“To you, I am nothing more than a fox like a hundred thousand other foxes. But if you tame me, then we shall need each other. To me, you will be unique in all the world. To you, I shall be unique in all the world . . .”
~Fox

“Men have no more time to understand anything. They buy things all ready made at the shops. But there is no shop anywhere where one can buy friendship, and so men have no friends any more. If you want a friend, tame me . . .”
~Fox

“Words are the source of misunderstandings.”
~Fox

“You are beautiful, but you are empty. One could not die for you. To be sure, an ordinary passerby would think that my rose looked just like you–the rose that belongs to me. But in herself alone she is more important than all the hundreds of you other roses: because it is she that I have watered; because it is she that I have put under the glass globe; because it is she that I have sheltered behind the screen; because it is for her that I have killed the caterpillars (except the two or three that we saved to become butterflies); because it is she that I have listened to, when she grumbled, or boasted, or ever sometimes when she said nothing. Because she is my rose.”
~The Little Prince

“Here is my secret, a very simple secret: It is only with the heart that one can see rightly; what is essential is invisible to the eye.”
~Fox

“Only the children know what they are looking for. They waste their time over a rag doll and it becomes very important to them; and if anybody takes it away from them, they cry . . .”
~The Little Prince

“It is a good thing to have had a friend, even if one is about to die. I, for instance, am very glad to have had a fox as a friend . . .”
~The Little Prince

“But the eyes are blind. One must look with the heart . . .”
~The Little Prince

The things that is important is the thing that is not seen…”
~Little Prince