From your writer mom.. An inspiration story..for both my sons
๐ฅฐDedicating For my sons Chris Savio and Aiden Juan..
A moral story of the pencil. Paulo Coelho
(Taken from ``Like the flowing riverยดยด book)
A boy was watching his grandmother write a letter. At one point he asked:
โAre you writing a story about what weโve done? Is it a story about me?โ
His grandmother stopped writing her letter and said to her grandson:
I am writing about you, actually, but more important than the words is the pencil Iโm using. I hope you will be like this pencil when you grow up.โ
Intrigued, the boy looked at the pencil. It didnโt seem very special.
โBut itโs just like any other pencil Iโve ever seen!โ
โThat depends on how you look at things. It has five qualities which, if you manage to hang on them, will make you a person who is always at peace with the world.โ
โFirst 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, and He always guides us according to His will.โ
โSecond quality: now and then, I have to stop writing and use a sharpner. That makes the pencil suffer a little, but afterwards, heโs much sharper. So you, too, must learn to bear certain pains and sorrows, because they will make you a better person.
โThird quality: the pencil always allows us to use an eraser to rub out any mistakes. This means that correcting something we did is not necessarily a bad thing; it helps to keep us on the road to justice.โ
Fourth quality: what really matters in a pencil is not its wooden exterior, but the graphite inside. So always pay attention to what is happening inside you
โFinally, the pencilโs 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 actionโ.
So.. Always write your destiny with pen but ways with a pencil.. Your Momโค
With love.. AnnaNathasha ๐๐ป
Dr Jayalakshmi Vijayan /Freelance writer
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