嘿 銀色石頭先生 我坐在小學溜滑梯上睡‧午‧覺，天很藍。

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今天很開心大家都能在這裡，一起分享讀書心得，而且剛好全部都是女生！這是一本很棒的寓言。

For me, it can be a “career.” When I was younger, I would say it was a mate. I was longing for romantic love, maybe. Later I “got mature” and knew more about life. Romantic love may not be necessary, but work dominates my life. To search for a perfect career becomes the essential desire.

It seems we are talking about Maslow’s hierarchy of needs. I agree with all who set different goals in different stages of life. It seems that we all search for different things in different time of life. When we are young we only want to satisfy our physiological needs: eating, drinking, sleeping. Then we know how to love and care to be loved. When we get out of our family and set foot on the big world, social status and self-esteem will be more important. Then many of us know how to sacrifice the daily pleasure in order to achieve self-realization. Don’t forget that in the process of searching, the Big O which misses a piece enjoys the company of the flowers, butterflies, beetles and the worms. That is called aesthetic need.

Actually many people would consider the Big O as a male and the Missing Piece as a female. I have to say that a Christian can easily specify this, because it is a fable with Biblical allusion. Let’s make it explicit: The Big O is Adam, because God created Eve out of Adam’s rib, Adam has to look for his bride in order to make himself “complete.” If we think in this Christian way, the question will be too boring. I am so curious how you portray the two “characters.”