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When The Little Prince Grew Up, So Did We


I rewatched The Little Prince yesterday, for the third time, I think. The first time I saw it, I was around 11, and even then, I totally didn’t cry (jk, I definitely did). But this time..watching it at 15..it hit differently. It hit hard.

There’s this scene where the Little Prince, now grown up, is stuck on a mechanical, cold planet. And it made me realize that that planet is the world we’re living in now.

Those trapped stars? They’re our dreams...our curiosities, our childlike passions all bottled up and buried beneath layers of expectations. The world's crushing weight mirrors the pressure to conform, to “grow up” the way society expects us to. And the saddest part is, most people don’t even notice it. We get so used to suppressing our wonder that we forget it was ever there.

We start chasing money, power, control, validation...everything the Little Prince critiques through the characters on the other planets: the king, the businessman, the conceited man. One by one, they become reflections of what we turn into.

We stop asking questions. We forget the joy of playing pretend, of chasing stars, of finding magic in the world.

The Little Prince isn’t just a children’s story, it’s a story that makes us remember to not forget. Not forget the whimsical way of life we led as children.

Maybe we all need to rewatch it. To remember who we were...before the world told us who to be.

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