The LamplighterRead more
Bienvenue to my shop! "It is truly useful since it is beautiful", says the Little Prince, and those words inspire me every day.
In the story, the Little Prince meets a lamplighter on a tiny planet. The lamplighter has to light and extinguish his street lamp every day, which is especially tiring because his planet has 1,440 sunsets a day!
Despite the exhaustion, the Little Prince sees purpose in this seemingly absurd task, since each time the lamplighter lights a lamp is “as if he brought a new star to life”.
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