Dear Friends, I am off :)

I remember the fox, begging the Little Prince to tame him. He refused, thinking that when the time he needed to go comes, he would hurt the fox's feeliings as he had made a relation with the creature. But the fox insisted.

And when the day that the Little Prince had to leave for good, the fox was in tears.

"Ah," said the fox, I shall cry."

"It is all you fault," said the Little Prince. "I never wished you any sort of harm; but you wanted me to tame you..."

"Yes, that is so," said the fox.

"But now you are going to cry!" said the Little Prince.

"Yes, that is so."

"Then it has done you no good at all!"

"It has done me good."

The Little Prince went away, to look again at the roses.

"You are not at all like my rose," he said. "As yet you ae nothing. No one has tamed you, and you have tamed no one. You are like my fox when I first knw him. He was only a fox like a hundred thousand other foxes. But I have made him my friend, and now he is unique in all the world."

And the roses were very much embarassed.

"You are beautiful, but you are empty," he went on. "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 for her that I have killed the caterpillars (except the two or three we saved to become butterflies); because it is she that I have listened to, when she grumbled, or boasted, or even sometimes when she said nothing. Because she is MY rose."

And he went back to meet the fox.

"It is only with the heart that one can see rightly;
what is essential is invisible to the eye."

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I am off to find a quill to ignore, a rose to mock and a poet to stare at blank pages.

Dear friends, I am sorry it has to be this way. I am in search for my own literature.

My last wish is for you to establish one big happy family in this site. Promise me you will all become one family. ^^

I have to go. The ship is sailing.

Thank you for everything.

I won't forget any one.^^

"Punishment"

Alex

:)

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