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.
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?
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).
“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
“Death ends a life, not a relationship.”
Have you lost track of someone who made a big impact in your life? Is it someone close to your heart? A non-relative who treated you as part of his family?
Maybe it was a colleague, a friend, or a mentor. Someone who helped you discover the world in a different perspective, lead you when were searching, and guided you to make your way to the right path.
Does someone familiar pops into your mind? Wouldn’t you like to see that person again?
As for Mitch Albom, that person was his favorite professor, Morrie Schwartz. Mitch was lucky to have the chance to reunite with his old friend. A little bit late though, he rediscovered his once love-to-dance professor in the last months of his life. Time has passed, and the disease (known as ALS or Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis) withered Morrie’s body, but to Mitch, he’s still the man he’s looking up to. In the last moments of Morrie’s life, he was able to do his first love – teaching, but this time it’s about life and death. Indeed, he’s a “teacher until the end.”
“Tuesdays with Morrie” is a story of friendship, death, and life’s greatest lesson.
“So many people walk around with a meaningless life. They seem half-asleep, even when they’re busy doing things they think are important. This is because they’re chasing the wrong things. The way you get meaning into your life is to devote yourself to loving others, devote yourself to your community around you, and devote yourself to creating something that gives you purpose and meaning.”
“Accept what you are able to do and what you are not able to do”
“Dying is not synonymous to useless.”
“People are only mean when they’re threatened.”
“Love is how you stay alive, even after you are gone.”
“Once you learn how to die, you learn how to live.”
“We put our values in the wrong things. And it leads to very disillusioned lives.”
“A successful man is one who can lay a firm foundation with the bricks others have thrown at him.”
“You cannot substitute material things for love or gentleness or for tenderness or for a sense of comradeship.”
“If you’re trying to show off for people at the top, forget it. They will look down at you anyhow. And if you’re trying to show off for people at the bottom, forget it. They will only envy you. Status will get you nowhere. Only an open heart will allow you to float equally between everyone.”
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