The Little Princess 22-6-24

LITTLE PRINCESS 

PREFACE

First of all, I have to apologize to some people who know me and have given genuine care and advice about things that are clear  to everyone, but I am still stuck. Often this interest is expressed through the question of whether it is reasonable for a person working in the field of science and technology to read and write about things that have nothing to do with his knowledge. They advised me to spend my time on more useful things, like things that can be measured, and if not, then I should focus on the necessary relationships in this society. There are also people who are sincere and impatient with the person I am, as if I fell from the sky. Indeed, in those days I was often confused and did not remember how I answered, except for one random answer that Gauss said that Pushkin gave him more ideas than Pascal. This happened when I was young.

Now that I'm older, I don't see anyone asking this question anymore, but I ask myself the same things people asked me before, and then maybe I'll find the answer to these questions. Sometimes I think that I need a long journey, even a mental one, not to learn more about this distant place, but to escape from this time-space, and from there I can look back on myself and on this world. And I thought about a distant place, about a planet. This is not the planet of the Little Prince. This is another planet, the planet of the Little Princess.

But my intention was interrupted, because a great war was going on in this world with all the cruelties that people could think of. Although I knew that the history of mankind has always been one of wars for land and rights, I was still shocked. My thoughts seemed to focus on the land, where in winter the fields were covered with snow, and in summer they were bright yellow with sunflowers and folk songs full of sadness. It’s like an invisible thread connects me with the country in which I lived, studied and loved for more than ten years of my youth. When it is hurt, it hurts me too... and then I suddenly realized that the invisible string connecting me with the outside world, albeit a very distant one, is called Love.

In fact, there are many definitions for the word 'Love'. The last definition I remember was given by the French writer Saint-Exupéry, who implicitly refers to the example of the Little Prince and the rose with four tiny thorns. 

I re-read The Little Prince to calm myself down when the war has been going on in Europe over two years and to tune myself to being in a distant planet, from there I shall calmly look back and see our world in which we live with our wisdom and illusions.

 As for me, like Poetry, Fairy Tales are the truest, most real things... but for another world

Then what is an Adult? I don't know for sure yet. Children are the same. Adults are similar only in two things: firstly, no one is like the others, and secondly, they were once children. In addition, it is ultimately seen that adults can be divided into two types: one type still has a child inside with whom to talk, respond and think. Children naturally ask questions. To answer them, adults must have the same way of thinking as children, both the way of thinking and their own language, short and clear - this is first of all. The other type does not have such a child inside.

Representatives of the first type can probably still read the story of this French writer. They say that while flying into space, the French astronaut took this story with him to read, feel the asteroid with a red rose tree, sheep and even volcanoes. Then, before uniting the EU with the euro, France printed a 50-franc coin with the image of the hat featured on the first page of the storybook The Little Prince.

In fact, when people fly into space to get closer to the stars to see them more clearly, they also see themselves and humanity more clearly. No one has ever gone into space and come back and said they saw any new stars or asteroids. By chance you cannot find it, and the same thing if you are looking for it. First, we must believe that it exists somewhere in this universe. The same thing happened with this asteroid, which no one has yet given a name.

Isn’t that why, when we feel anxious or restless, we often look at the sky, as little Anne Frank wrote in her diary: “I see the world gradually turning into savagery,... it will destroy everything, . ...but if you look at the sky, think that everything will be fine, that the cruelty will end, that peace and tranquility will come to an end. Peace will return." 

I went out onto the balcony and looked at the starry night sky. It feels like there is a blinking star, as if calling me to write, or rather, to write down what, if we look from this star, our eyes will not become clouded, and we will see what, being on our earth, we cannot see.

1.

THE ASTEROID

Someone said the Little Princess was the Little Prince's twin sister and so everyone said so. In fact, in the asteroid belt of the solar system between Jupiter and Saturn where the Little Prince's Asteroid B612 is located, there is no permanent residence of the Little Princess's asteroid. It often wanders, sometimes far away into the outer solar system, close to Saturn, Neptune and the dwarf planets, sometimes flying into the inner solar system where Mercury, Venus, Mars, and Earth are located.  Only once in a while will it pass through the main asteroid belt. Astronomers also saw it once but didn't think about naming it. No one names something without knowing when they will see it again, without knowing where it will go, especially if it is the name of a star. Since the number of names is limited, it would be more meaningful to name things that are not actually real but that many people believe are real.

There is also an astronomer who calls the Little Princess's asteroid a lonely star. This man often writes poetry. If we remove the word "loneliness", humanity will lose half of its poetry and become clearly poorer. The little princess did not feel lonely or rather did not understand what it was. People only know the feeling of loneliness when they have someone by their side and then leave. In other words, lonely people are people who were once not lonely. Here the little princess was like that from the beginning, alone on the asteroid, no one lost or missed her. The fact that she is said to be the twin sister of the Little Prince was also suggested by the geographer who lived on the asteroid 330 that the Little Prince passed before coming to our earth. He suggested that there had been a collision that caused the star to become two asteroids. To prove it, we need to take pictures of those two asteroids and put them together to see if they match, like the picture of Africa and America in geography, like two pieces of a picture.

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THE LAKE

The Little Princess's asteroid is much larger than the Little Prince's asteroid. There is enough room for a small pond with grass around it and many flowering plants of various colors. Wherever there is water, there are fish, this lake is no exception. On Earth, it can be easily explained that the reason high mountain lakes also have fish is because in the past they were also seas or rivers with fish and then due to the earth's crust shifting, they rose to become lakes. high in the mountains and carrying fish. fish. follow up. Physicists think differently. They think that there is actually no vacuum in the universe, but the matter there is too thin, like dust, gas, plasma or..... even fish eggs, who knows. Moving or not moving the earth's crust is not important. All you need is water and fish eggs.

In this tranquil lake resides a small fish. Its elusive form requires keen eyes to discern. It glides gracefully among the purple flower petals that float upon the water’s surface. Sometimes, it remains motionless near the mossy shore, evading detection. But when the little Princess approaches, she stirs the water with her gentle hand, coaxing ripples that signal the fish’s presence. At dawn, it vanishes mysteriously, only to reappear under the shimmering star clusters of the night. But no matter how mischievous, the Little Princess would recognize that cheeky fish. It seemed as though the fish had been waiting just for that moment, so when the Little Princess splashed water on that spot, it darted toward her. She cupped her hands to scoop up water and the fish, which swam in the puddle within her palm. 

All the stars and the whole universe seemed to follow the fish into the little girl's palm. It is true that there are games that people play every night. They are busy with each other, are repetitive but do not get bored until they fall asleep.

Then the girl bent down to release the sleeping fish back into the lake. While it slept, the fish still seemed to rest in the palm of her little hand, while the Little Princess raised her eyes to gaze at the stars. The stars continued to weave their stories, and the girl gradually drifted into a peaceful sleep

(to be continued)