How to Live Like the Little Prince by Stéphane Garnier

Author:Stéphane Garnier
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Chronicle Books LLC
Published: 2022-01-10T03:01:00+00:00

TRAVEL DIARY

To be rich in what you have is to be rich in what you love, to end up being rich in what you are.

And my Little Prince told me . . .

The question mark

is a symbol of doubt,

and its drawing, half a heart.

“You become forever responsible for what you have tamed.

You are responsible for your rose . . .”

—the fox

how to

work at what you love and feel useful in what you do

like the little prince

while each life story is a saga that is written chapter by chapter, when we are young, we are not alone in writing the first volumes. From infancy to taking our first steps, our parents, our teachers, and others around us are the ones who “write” our first experiences, our first tastes, our first discoveries.

These first volumes of life pile up and are filled with experiences and knowledge that we do not choose, but toward which we are directed to discover and test. Consequently, the more diverse and rich the knowledge we gain in childhood is, the broader the possibilities are for our future.

Believing that we can choose a profession without having been exposed to different subjects is an illusion. When we don’t know any better, we have no choice—we pursue a course of study by default in the few or only fields we have ever known.

As adults, we become the sum of the experiences we were immersed in as children. We go on to practice the profession for which we have been conditioned since the first chapters, the first volumes, of our lives. This is how teachers, doctors, lawyers, sailors, and construction workers are often trained, based on the influence of their families.

And yet, along the way, from childhood to adolescence, we all picked up a pen at some point, disregarding outside influences, to write new chapters of our lives. It is then quite possible that tension and contradictions appeared between the paths we chose to follow and the paths to which we felt drawn. And yet, we continued on our merry way because of our ignorance and our fear of the field we cherished at the time. A lack of confidence, a lack of support, and life itself sometimes lead us into a world or a profession for which, despite appearances, we are not suited.

Have you experienced this situation? Maybe you are living it right now. Maybe you have a certain scope of knowledge, or maybe you’re working in a respectable profession, yet you don’t always feel like you belong.

So, what should you do? What should you do when you remember the dreams you had, the desires you may have written down in your diary years ago? Secret dreams of art, of grand gourmet tables, of becoming a veterinarian or an architect, of traveling the world. When today, the task at hand is to urgently send tax assessments to your company before the deadline.

Am I in the right place? Do I like what I do? These are questions that, as soon as they appear, never stop coming back, spinning around, dancing before our eyes.

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