By Shahab Sabahi, Energy and Environment for Development –
Research Group
You may remember that once asked me; how to communicate with
people and make friendship? My partner says. My partner continues “People buy
ready-made things in the shops. But since there are no shops where you can buy
friends, men no longer have any friends. If you want a friend, tame yourself!” What
should I do? I asked.
“You must be very patient. First you will down at a little
distance from one who wish to make friendship. One shall watch you out of the
corner of one’s eye and you will say nothing. Words are a source of
misunderstandings. But every day you can sit a little closer to one. You should
come back at same time every day. One shall start feeling happy at an hour
before the meeting time. As the time passes, one shall feel happier and
happier. At the meeting time one shall become agitated and start worrying. One shall
discover the price of happiness. But if you come just at any time, one shall
never know when should prepare one’s heart to greet you. One must observe
certain rites.”
“Now my partner; do you see the ocean? I do nothing to do
with it. The ocean does not remind me of anything. And I find it rather boring.
But you have heart the size of the ocean. So it will be marvelous when you tame
your mind with the influence of your heart. The ocean, then, will remind me of
you and I shall love the sound of the wave in the ocean”
Inspire by my partner
and courtesy of Antoine De Saint-Exupery’s book “The little Prince”
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