Der kleine prinz.

"I hunt chickens, men hunt me. All the chickens are just alike and all men are just alike. And, in consequence, I am a little bored. But if you tame me, it will be as if the sun came to shine on my life. I shall know the sound of a step that will be different from all the others. Other steps send me hurrying back underneath the ground. Yours will call me, like music, out of my burrow. And then look: you see the grain fields down yonder? I do not eat bread. Wheat is of no use to me. The wheat fields have nothing to say to me. And that is sad. But you have hair that is the colour of gold. Think how wonderful that will be when you have tamed me! The grain, which is also golden, will bring me back the thought of you. And I shall love to listen to the wind in the wheat..."
- Fox, Antoine de Saint Exupery's The Little Prince

On the morning of my departure, I shall put my planet in order. I will carefully clean out my active volcanoes, and the extinct one as well.

I will also pull up the last remaining shoots of baobabs.
I will water the flower for the last time, and prepare to shelter her under the glass globe.

On my last morning, all these familiar tasks will seem very precious to me.

And then I shall await for my flock of wild birds.

I won't linger like this. I have decided to go away. And I will.

---

So to you: thank you, happy birthday, and... goodbye.