The Little Prince

All grown-ups were once children, but only few of them remember it.With age children lose the gift that allows them naturally to live in harmony with their spirit.The most important thing that we loose as we grow older is our spiritGetting old is not about ageing, its about spirit.Adults aren't disappointed simply because we have grown bigger, or obtained jobs, or taken onresponsibilities. We are disappointed because for many of us these pursuits have taken on adisproportionate importance. We have forgotten how to see the world as it actually is and areblinded by appearances. We see people as statistics, education as functional, food as fuel, clothingas utilitarian and books as unnecessary luxury. We vastly over-value what we can experience withthe senses. If this is what it means to be a grown up, is it any wonder that Saint-Exupery refused tocondone our way of life? We are like the accountant he describes, spending our days working overour books, counting everything up, claiming ownership of all we can fit in the ledger, and failling tosee that we live in a whole, wild universe filled with stars somewhere in the midst of which one,unique rose lives on a planet and calls out for love.