The Parable of The Pencil (Part 1)

Once there was a pencil-maker. Before he put the pencils into the box, he would tell the pencils these things:

1) Let the owner hold onto you so that you can be use.
2) Although the sharpening process can be very painful, it will make you to be a better pencil.
3) On everything that you write on, make sure you leave your marks on it.

After telling the pencils these, he would place them in boxes and have them shipped out. There was one particular pencil that landed on the ownership of a high ranking soldier. The soldier was in a war and he was asked by his general to go fly across the enemy territory to have a map drawn out. However, this troubled the soldier very much. Looking at his table full of pens, he could not decide as to which to be use for this mission. The fountain pen will leak, the pen cannot be erase and another pen easily ran out of ink.

Finally, he decided to bring a pencil with him. The pencil ink can be erase and it can be sharpened when it become blunt. With the help of the soldier's map and of course the pencil, the nation finally defeated its enemy.

All of us are like the pencil. We need to be nurture in school so that we can do big things in future and even leave our marks on HISTORY.