Thursday, December 20, 2012

The Qualities of Pencil


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 you will be like this pencil when you grow up.’
Intrigued, the boy looked at the pencil. It didn’t seem very special.
‘But it’s just like any other pencil I’ve ever seen!’
‘That depends on how you look at things. It has five qualities which, if you manage to follow 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, and he always guides us according to his will.

Second Quality: Now and then, I have to stop writing and use a sharpener. That makes the pencil suffer a little, but after wards, the person is much sharper. So you, too, must learn to bear certain pains and sorrows, because they will make you a better person. 

Third Quality: The pencil always allows us to use an eraser to erase out mistakes. This means that correcting something we did is not necessarily a bad thing; it helps to keep us on the road to Justice.

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.

And the pencil’s 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.

 - Riddhita Parikh



18 comments:

  1. If a person adopts the five qualities of pencil he will definitely touch the sky.

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  2. Each one of us has got qualities,some are good and some r bad.God has
    not send us on Earth with qualities, through our behavior and manners
    people know our qualities.

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  3. At 30 a man should know himself like the palm of his hand, know the exact number of his defects and qualities, know how far he can go, foretell his failures - be what he is. And, above all, accept these things.
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  4. a good story .Special Thanks to Riddhita mam

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  5. Everyone should have the five quaility of pencil to be success in life.

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  6. we didnt know that pencil aloso have 5 qualities

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  7. now it has became my 1 of the most favourate stories

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  10. The blog will make students more intelligent

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  11. Wonderful!
    All of us should have good qualities like the 5 qualities of pencil.
    If we have these 5 qualities we can touch the moon & can do every impossible things.

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    MAM EXCELLENT KEEP IT UP

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  14. nice work!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

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