Their child watching his grandmother write a letter. At some point, asking:
– Write a story that we happened to us? Or maybe it’s a story about me?
His grandmother stopped writing, he smiled and said to her grandson:
– It’s true, I write about you. But more important than words is the pencil writing. I would like to be like him when you grow up.
Pencil boy looked puzzled, because it does not seem very special.
– But it’s just like any other pencil I’ve seen in my life!
– Everything depends on how you look at things. There are five qualities in a pencil, that if you can keep them, you’ll always be a man that lives in peace with the world.
First quality: you can do great things, but never forget that there is a hand guiding your steps. On the one hand we call God and He always guides us according to His will.
Second quality: from time to time I have to stop writing and use sharpner. That means the pencil suffer a little, but eventually will be much sharper. So, to learn to bear some pain, because they will make you better.
Third quality: the pencil allows us to use an eraser to rub out mistakes. You understand that the correct thing is not necessarily a bad thing, what is really is that we keep on the right path.
A fourth quality: the pencil is not important its wooden exterior, but the graphite inside. So always take care of what happens within you.
And, finally, the fifth as the pencil: always leave a trace. Just to know that what you do in life will leave a mark so you should try to be aware of every act of yours.
by Paulo Coelho
Plain Roses 
