Povestea creionului (de Paolo Coelho)
Copilul isi privea bunicul scriind o scrisoare. La un moment dat, intreba:
Scrii o poveste care ni s-a intamplat noua?
Sau poate e o poveste despre mine?

Bunicul se opri din scris, zambi si-i spuse nepotului: E adevarat, scriu despre tine. Dar mai important decat cuvintele este creionul cu care scriu. Mi-ar placea sa fii ca el, cand vei fi mare.

Copilul privi creionul intrigat, fiindca nu vazuse nimic special la el. Dar e la fel ca toate creioanele pe care le-am vazut in viata mea! Totul depinde de felul cum privesti lucrurile. Exista cinci calitati la creion, pe care daca reusim sa le mentinem, vom fi totdeauna un om care traieste in buna pace cu lumea.

Prima calitate: poti sa faci lucruri mari, dar sa nu uiti niciodata ca exista o Mana care ne conduce pasii. Pe aceasta mana o numim Dumnezeu si El ne conduce totdeauna conform dorintei Lui.

A doua calitate: din cand in cand trebuie sa ma opresc din scris si sa folosesc ascutitoarea. Asta inseamna un pic de suferinta pentru creion, dar pana la urma va fi mai ascutit. Deci, sa stii sa suporti unele dureri, pentru ca ele te vor face mai bun.

A treia calitate: creionul ne da voie sa folosim guma pentru a sterge ce era gresit. Trebuie sa intelegi ca a corecta un lucru nu inseamna neaparat ceva rau, ceea ce este neaparat este faptul ca ne mentinem pe drumul drept.

A patra calitate: la creion nu este important lemnul sau forma lui exterioara, ci mina de grafit din interior. Tot asa, ingrijeste-te de ce se intampla inlauntrul tau.

Si, in sfarsit, a cincea calitate a creionului: lasa totdeauna o urma. Tot asa, sa stii ca tot ce faci in viata va lasa urme, astfel ca trebuie sa incerci sa fii constient de fiecare fapta a ta.

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The story of the pencil

by PAULO COELHO

source: “Like the Flowing River” by Paulo Coelho

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 hang on 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 sharpner. 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.
‘Third 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.’
‘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.’
‘Finally, 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’

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