Monday 23 November 2015

The story of the pencil

A boy was watching his grandmother write a letter at one point he asked:
   'Are you writing a story about what we have done? Is it a story about me?'
He's grandmother stopped writing her letter and said to her grandson:
   'I am writing about you, actually, but more important then the words is the pencil I'm using.. I hope you will be like a pencil when you grow up.'
 Intrigued, the boy look at the pencil. I don't seem very special.
   'but it's just like any other pencil I have ever seen.'
   ' that depends on how you look at things. If you have five qualities which, if you manage to hang on to them, will make you a person who is always at peace with the world.'
   'First quality: you are capable of great things, but you must never forget that there is a hand guiding your steps we call that hand God, he always guides us according to His will.'
   'Second quality: now and then, I have to start writing and use a sharpner. That makes the pencils suffer a little, but afterwards, he's much sharper put stuff so you, too, must learn to be a certain pains and sorrows, because  they will  make you a better person.'
   ' third quality: the pencil always allows us to use an eraser to rub out any mistake. This means that correcting something we did is not necessarily a bad thing; it helps to keep us on the road of justice.'
   'Fourth quality:  what really matters in a pencil is not its wooden exterior, but the graphite inside.
   ' finally, the pencil fifth quality: it always leaves a mark. In just the same way, you should know that everything you do in life will leave a mark, so try to be conscious of that in your every action.'

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