This friend of mine being very nice and gave me a book as Christmas gift. didn't manage to read it since yesterday night. My friend told me it's a very classic book and it's actually for kids. This book only have 86 pages and there are pictures and the fonts can be identified as a 'kid's book'. after reading it, i feel that even adults might not have that kind of wisdom.
This book is illustrating simple dialogues between soft toys as well as those toys we are playing when we are still young [of if you are still playing now, doesn't matter=)]. through their dialogues, we can see that soft toys have grades and they want to be as 'real' looking as the real thing. there is this rabbit toy made of velveteen[dictionary.com says it's cotton fabric], felt invaluable and starts to lose hope because children prefers the new toys since he is not as new as other toys. One day, he asked the skin horse[which seems to be the wisest among all the toys]:
Velveteen rabbit:What is REAL?
Velveteen rabbit:Does it mean having things that buzz inside you and a stick-out handle?
Skin Horse:Real isn't how you are made.
Skin Horse:It's a thing that happens to you.
Skin Horse:When a child loves you for a long, long time, not just to play with,
but REALLY loves you, then you become Real.
Velveteen rabbit:Does it hurt?
Skin Horse:Sometimes.
Skin Horse:When you are Real you don't mind being hurt.
Like said, this book have much more wisdom to learn from so not going to post every one of them because different people have different interpretation. I see it as a motivation but who knows, you might think that this is just a normal conversation between two non-living things which doesn't have any power of words.
ps:Never measure other people with your own ruler.
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