'The Dryad' by Hans-Christian-Andersen

The Dryad is one of Hans Christian Andersen's tales, which tells a story of a dryad of a chestnut tree in France who longs to become a human and experience the human world. But at a great cost, she will only live for one night.

    "The Dryad sat at the foot of the tree—at her house door, which she had locked, and whose key had thrown away. So young! so fair! The stars saw her, and blinked at her. The gas-lamps saw her, and gleamed and beckoned to her. How delicate she was, and yet how blooming!—a child, and yet a grown maiden! Her dress was fine as silk, green as the freshly-opened leaves on the crown of the tree; in her nut-brown hair clung a half-opened chestnut blossom. She looked like the Goddess of Spring.

    For one short minute she sat motionless; then she sprang up, and, light as a gazelle, she hurried away. She ran and sprang like the reflection from the mirror that, carried by the sunshine, is cast, now here, now there. Could any one have followed her with his eyes, he would have seen how marvellously her dress and her form changed, according to the nature of the house or the place whose light happened to shine upon her."

I like this story, it reminds me of a youth spirit that makes us longs to see new things, the passion of something that we love to, which i've forgotten.