Personal connection: Diary entry of the "Little Prince"

Dear diary,

I just have arrived on the seventh planet, that is called the Earth. I'm curious about the people who live there. Before that I visited six other planets:
The first planet was inhabited by a king. Wearing purple and ermine, he was sitting on a simple yet majestic throne. But I didn't understand the king because he wanted to command me. The king wanted to reign, but the planet was so tiny. I asked myself what could the king really reign. He was so strange, so I quickly left the first planet.
The second planet was inhabited by a very vain man. He wanted to be admired. I didn’t understand what he meant, so I left this planet, too.
The third planet was inhabited by a drunkard. This visit was a very brief one, but it plunged me into a deep depression. I thought, grown-ups were certainly very, very strange.
The fourth planet belonged to a businessman. The person was so busy that he didn’t even raise his head when I arrived. He wanted to own all things, but he didn’t do anything with his property. I looked after my flower and the three vulcanoes on my planet.
The fifth planet was very strange. It was the smallest of all. There was just enough room for a street lamp and a lamplighter. I couldn’t quite understand of what use a street lamp and a lamplighter could be up there in the sky, on a planet without any people and not a single house. So I visited the sixth planet. It was inhabited by an old gentleman who wrote enormous books. He was a geographer and he advised me to visit the earth.
Now I have landed on the earth and I’m very interested in the people who live there. The Earth is not just another planet! It contains one hundred and eleven kings (including, of course, the African kings), seven thousand geographers, nine-hundred thousand businessmen, seven-and-a-half million drunkards, three-hundred-eleven million vain men; in other words, about two billion grown-ups.
I hope I can understand one of them.

Your “Little Prince”

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