The story of the Pencil - by Paul Cohello

A boy was watching his grandmother write a letter. At one point he asked:

"Are you writing a story about what we've done? Is it a story about me?
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 i'm using. I hope that you will be like this pencil when you grow up.

Intrigued the boy lookeds at the pencil. It didn't seem very special.

"But its just like any other pencil i've ever seen!"

"That depends on how you look at things. It has five qualities which which, if you manage to hang on to them, will always make you a person who is always at peace with the world.

"1st Quality" - you are capable of great things, but you must never forget that there is a hand guiding your steps. We call that the hand of God, and He always guides us according to his will.

...all this takes is belief in its weakest of forms too...coz ur weakness is ur strength!

"2nd Quality" - now and then, i have to stop writing and use a sharpener. That makes the pencil suffer a little, but afterwards, he's much sharper. So you, too must learn to bear certain pains and sorrows, because they will make you a better person.

...problem is we get sharper and sharper until there is no lead left....but a used pencil is better than an untouched/blunt one since the best of qualities it has will remain in limbo as no caligrapher even notices it

"3rd Quality" - The pencil always allows us to use an eraser to rub out any mistakes. This meanst that correcting something we did is not necessarily a bad thing: it helps to keep us on the road to justice.

...if u keep making the same mistake...eventually the eraser gets worn out and the page on which the pencil left the mark turns from a mere smudge to a permanant dark tear on the page...

"4th 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.

...focus on your inner...and the you will be amazed to how the outer can blossom

Finally the pencils "5th Quality" : it always leaves a mark. In just the same way you should know that everythng you do in life will leave a mark, so try to be concious of that in your every action.

sign your mark .....without recognition