pencil philosophy.

 A young girl was watching her grandmother writing in a book. She asked her what she was writing.

Her grandmother stopped writing and said to her granddaughter, 

*_"I am writing a story, 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 girl looked at the pencil. It didn’t seem very special.

*_"But it’s just like any other pencil I’ve seen!"_*

The grandmother replied, "That depends on how you look at things. 

It has seven qualities which, if you manage to adopt, will make you a happy person who is always at peace with the world."

She elaborated...

First quality: You must never forget that *there is a hand guiding you.* We call that hand Almighty, 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 afterwards, it 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 rub out any mistakes. 

This means that *correcting something we did is not necessarily a bad thing; it helps to keep us on the right path.*

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.

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  every action of yours.* 

Sixth quality : It gets shorter and shorter with use.... so does life. 

*Make the most while it lasts.*

Seventh quality: It writes till the very end. now a days it is thrown off after it gets less than half its original size.

*Be useful and productive till your dying day.*