Xiao Xia, when his mother was just with his father, he gave his mother a finger-sized glass bottle with a rose inside. It was a trinket that he had glued with his own hands, and his mother cherished it very much. Later, my mother put this glass bottle with double-sided tape in the upper left corner of the computer screen, standing in the direction of the heart, and stared at it almost every day. That rose stood there until we divorced.

This rose is the rose in the story of the little prince. Her glass bottle was made by the little prince himself. Whether it is in the story or in the mother's life, this rose, which symbolizes love, eventually withers with the death of love.

Mom read The Little Prince when she was very young, this fairy tale has a profound charm, and it is the same as the relationship between all fables and us, everyone has read their plots since childhood, listened to the interpretation of the truth, but they have waited until they are old and scarred, and they suddenly realize that life is really as sharp and cold as the fable, and what is said in the original story is true.

After the divorce, my mother's mind is much clearer and she knows herself better. If someone had given me the same rose glass bottle now, my mother would probably have asked him before it all began, do you understand what the story of roses means? Have you ever wondered why roses later withered?

But a few years ago, my mother didn't think about anything, although she had read fairy tales and knew about the tragedy of roses, she still didn't think about anything. The tears that were touched when I was studying became an indifferent ritual, and I didn't leave any deep thoughts. When my mother received the rose glass bottle, she didn't know that what the story said was true.

The story of Natsu, the little prince is simple. The part about roses in it is even understated as if it has nothing to do with love. When my mother read it when she was in school, she could understand that the acquaintance and separation of Rose and the little prince was a metaphor for love, and when my mother got married, I had already understood that this was a portrayal of love, and when my mother divorced, I understood that the original story was about love and getting along.

During the journey of the little prince, he meets the rose, and the feeling at that time is unique and does not require thinking. He loved roses, cared for her, took care of her, and made glass bottles to shelter her from the wind and rain. But as they spent more time together, the little prince found that roses were no longer perfect. She was proud and arrogant. So he left.

Later on his journey, the little prince met other roses and foxes. When he remembered the uniqueness of his rose among the flowers, when he learned from the fox to choose and resist temptation and responsibility, when he returned to the original point, he found that the rose was dead.

When the little prince grew up to be able to take on the responsibility of love and understand the relaxation of getting along, the rose did not wait for him in the same place, and their love had long since withered.

Now every time I read this, or even just think about it, my mom brings tears to my eyes. The love between mom and dad is the same as that of the little prince and rose, and there is no happy ending. The regret and poignancy revealed in the fairy tale, and even the story that once made my mother feel that she and her father could not be called a tragedy, but a beautiful experience.

It seems to be a little close, but it's already a thing. What remains unchanged is the things that have been experienced, the mistakes that have been made, the misunderstandings that have not been solved, the original resentments or initial likes that we have ever had, and in the end they are all beautiful. The withered roses and the dead hearts sparkle like diamonds dotted with time. Mom loves this ending, and because of this ending, she begins to appreciate the incompleteness of her love story. Xiao Xia, the separation of mom and dad is likely to be the best ending, and it is a regrettable beauty that should remain in our hearts after we finally forget the dispute, forget the vulgarity and triviality.

When my mom and dad first got married, I was immersed in a sense of stability that I had never experienced before, and this feeling turned into comfort and lasted until my dad left. In my marriage at that time, my mother often felt that she was lucky to meet the only person in the world who was willing to accept me, understand me, and protect me. At that time, there were always some situations that made my mother feel that it was him, your father, if it was someone else, I wouldn't accept someone like my mother. Every time I think about it, I feel that I am really lucky to be able to form a family with my father and step into a stable and safe life in one step.

It feels so good.

It's a lot like the scene where the little prince meets the rose, right? Maybe Dad and Mom had such a moment of contentment. But it's a pity that later, Dad's story line became more like the little prince, and he began to slowly feel that things were not like that.

Xiao Xia, mom and dad to this day, have not finished the second half of the story like the little prince. We haven't had enough experience, we haven't woken up painfully, I don't know if we will finally look back, and we may not see the desperate and withered love after looking back, and send out the regret in our hearts. Mom believes that there must be a lot of people who have never told the whole story in their lives.

To this day, we haven't even understood, as the little prince suggests, that love is probably more about us than the other person, as the little prince suggests.

The rose is beautiful, but she was liked at the beginning, to being abandoned, to being recalled, in fact, it all depends on what the little prince thinks, which is far beyond what the rose itself is.

In the story, when the little prince walks into the rose garden, he finds that each one is as beautiful and delicate as his roses. His branch deceived him, and she was never unique. But later, the little prince still found that the rose in his heart, the rose that belonged to him, was irreplaceable, even including her shortcomings.

So, is it really because the other party is not good that love is dead?

Maybe one day, Mom and Dad will understand that we secretly shift the responsibility for not wanting to work hard to another person, all the intolerable shortcomings, those scornful inferior roots, selfishness, ugliness, greed, and occlusion, are all made up by us, not the other party's humanity is annihilated, the smell is unbearable, nor is it the death of love, those accusations, disgust, and unbearable are just that we don't want to work hard.

Love, it turns out that we need to transcend each other's essence through our own efforts, sublimate them, and let them become a unique one with all the good and bad, and this is also our irreplaceable sense of belonging and security.

The little prince was lucky, because later he understood, but he was also unlucky, because it was too late. Some people may feel that since they have been lost, it is better to be confused for a lifetime and not look back for a lifetime. But Xiao Xia, my mother hopes that one day, she can see more of the beauty of the previous relationship, even if everything is no longer there, it doesn't matter.