the story of the pencil! do you feel inspired? read it to the end!
By imajons
@imajons (31)
India
March 11, 2007 11:15am CST
A boy was watching his grandmother writing a letter!
At one point he asked:
are you writing about what we have done? Is it a story about me?
she stopped writing, turned to him and said, yes i'm writing about you. but more important than the words is the pencil i'm using. i hope you will be like this pencil when you grow up!
Intrigued, the boy looked at the pencil, it doesn't seem any special.but is just like any other pencil i have ever seen.
that depends on how you look at the things. it has five qualities which, if you manage to hang on to them, will make you the person who is at peace with the world.
1. you are capable of great things, but you must never forget that there is a hand guiding your steps. we call that hand GOD and he always guides us according to HIS will.
2. now and then i have to stop writing and sharpen my pencil. that will make the pencil suffer little. but, afterwards it much sharper. so you, too, must learn to bear certain pains and sorrows, that will make you better person.
3. the pencil always allows us to use an eraser to rub our mistakes. this means that correcting something we did id not necessarily a mistake, it helps to keep us on the road to justice.
4.what really matters in the pencil is not the wooden exterior, but the graphite inside. so always pay attention what is happening inside.
5. finally 5th quality is it always leaves a mark. in the same way you must know that everything you leaves a mark, so try to be conscious in every action you do!!!
3 responses
@mdbpineda (219)
• Philippines
11 Mar 07
this is a very nice story! i will always remember this story!
@AnnaB87 (761)
• United States
11 Mar 07
That was really great. I think I will tell this to my kids maybe even print it out and hang on the wall so they can read it.