Chapter 15 the fox calls the little prince

Received a call from "the fox calls the little prince". "...Hello?...Little Prince?...Uh, I'm a fox." That's how it started. I couldn't help laughing out loud. I often receive strange calls, and I instinctively know that this is the kind of happy trap in life. The so-called "happiness trap"...is a smart device that will automatically fall into it as soon as you feel happy. I fell in with a smile. I'm always happy to linger a bit longer when the other person is a complete stranger, yet brings a sense of complete familiarity... The thing about the little prince and the fox is something I am completely familiar with.

The little prince met the fox when he was crying. In Saint Exupery's book, the little prince owns three small volcanoes as high as his knees, and a rose he cherishes.The little prince lives alone on the small planet B-612, which is about the size of a house. The seventh planet that the little prince visited was the earth. He saw a garden with five thousand roses.He froze as if struck by lightning—— "Who are you?" asked the little prince. "We are roses." The little prince was very sad.Because the rose owned by the little prince once told the little prince: In the entire universe, she is a unique rose...

But now, it was just a garden, and there were five thousand roses exactly like him! The little prince thought like this: "I thought I was very rich and had the only rose in the world, but it turned out to be just the most common flower..." The little prince lay in the grass and cried. Then the fox appeared. "Come and play with me," said the little prince, "I'm very sad..." But the fox rejected the little prince. The fox said the word "tame" to the little prince. "I can't play with you." said the fox, "I haven't been tamed yet."

"What is 'training'?" the little prince asked again and again. "It's something that is often overlooked." Finally, the fox had no choice but to answer the little prince: "Taming is to connect two things." Next, the fox uttered perhaps the most important passage about living on earth in the entire book—— "To me, you're just a little boy like thousands of other little boys; to you, I'm just a fox, and you feel neither need of me nor I I need you...but if you tame me..." Every time I read the fox uttering this sentence, I feel that the whole place around me suddenly lights up.

If it's in a house, the whole house lights up; if it's in the lawn, the whole lawn... It is an imperative sentence greater than the magic of "Open Sesame"—— "If you tame me..." The fox began to imagine a new life: "If you tame me, I will recognize a person's footsteps, and other people's footsteps are different. Other people's footsteps will make me rush back to the ground, but your footsteps sound, but like music, it will call me out of the hole." The fox continued to imagine: "...I don't eat bread, the wheat is useless to me, and the wheat field has nothing to say to me. It is very sad. But you have golden hair, and how wonderful it will be when you tame me , the same golden ears of wheat can make me think of you, and I will also fall in love with the sound of the wind blowing through the wheat field..."

After saying this, the fox stared at the little prince for a long time. "Please - tame me," said the fox. This is definitely the most sentimental fox in animal history, even more sentimental than a ladybug.Fortunately, he met a little prince with the same sentimentality level as him, so he communicated well, like a thick chocolate cake meeting ice milk. "Even if I am facing this fox, there is nothing I can do." I secretly thought this way, feeling very thrilling. Of course, the little prince "taught" the fox.However, turning to the next page, the little prince had to leave.

"Ah," the fox heard that the little prince was leaving, "I'm going to cry." "It's all your own fault." The little prince was anxious: "You asked me to tame you, and now you're crying again! This means nothing to you at all!" "Yes, it is meaningful." The fox who was about to cry replied, "From now on, when I see the golden color of the wheat field..." The fox said it very well, and I can't say it better than him - as long as you have been tamed, as long as you have been tamed, the world will never be the same again.

Even the color of a wheat field... The fox told the little prince to go back and look at the five thousand roses in the garden.The little prince looked at them, and saw that they were nothing like his rose. "You are beautiful, but you are empty," said the little prince to the five thousand roses, "no one will die for you..." So the five thousand roses felt extremely ashamed for themselves.Saint Exupery wrote thus. The little prince's world is different, he is sure that his rose is the only one in the universe.Not because he was ignorant to believe so, but because he knew the meaning of "tame".

Very powerful, the word "tame".I really don't know where this fox got it. Of course, the little prince left the fox anyway. Taming is not raising, and taming is not raising.Once the action of domestication is completed, it is completed, and it does not depend on continuing to count. us. Some of us don't eat bread, and some of us have seen five thousand roses. "Why have nothing to do with me?..." In our eyes, the fox, the little boy, the ladybug, and the wheat field all look the same.We can't tell the only one, one, one. We don’t have the luck of the little prince. We didn’t meet someone who came to teach us the meaning of domestication when we were crying, who came to be our object of domestication, and volunteered to say: “Please—please tame me!”

That's because we are not in the same situation as the little prince, we didn't come to "visit" the earth and listen to briefings.We don't come from a tiny planet that only lives on us, nor do we have three mini volcanoes and a rose. Our whole life from childhood to adulthood is full of people coming and going, so we take the existence of others for granted. "Ah! I finally saw another human being!" Such surprises are almost impossible to hear except in science fiction movies. It is always outsiders like the little prince who can see things we cannot see and believe things we don't even bother to hear.

Things like "domestication". However, once we are tamed by the little prince, we also know that apart from the teacher you secretly curse, the neighbor you secretly love, the idol you follow, and the boss you bow down to, there are still other things between one person and another. There may be a bond established by domestication. Even if it's just for a moment while turning a page... As for the phone call I received, of course it was like a vine that found a tree trunk and clung to my life.extended. Since it is called a happy trap, of course there may be a sad ending, but it doesn't matter at all. Sadness is not the whole of life, just like happiness is not the whole of life. What's more, even if he fell into the cannibal's trap, he might still be spotted by the princess, and he would be fished out wet from the big vat with firewood underneath to change into the groom's clothes. As long as there is a telephone ring that will scare me into the ground, there will be a telephone ring that will call me out of the cave— "...Hello?...Are you a fox?...Uh, I'm the little prince..."