Qualities of a Pencil

The five qualities of a Pencil which if we manage to hang on to, will make us persons who are always at peace with the world & with themselves.

1. We are capable of great things, but we must never forget that there is a hand guiding our steps. We call that hand God, and He always guides us according to His will.
2. Now and then, we have to stop writing & use a sharpener. That makes the pencil suffer a little, but afterwards, he's much sharper. So we, too, must learn to bear certain pains and sorrows, because they will make us a better person.
3. 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.
4. What really matters in a pencil is not its wooden exterior, but the graphite inside. So we must always pay attention to what is happening inside us.
5. It always leaves a mark. In just the same way, we should know that everything we do in life will leave a mark, so lets try to be conscious of that in our every action.

Death

I know its not a topic anyone likes to think about, but still I have a duty to make everybody think about the important things in life which I have realised. And death is possibly the most important thing. We are all walking towards death, but we never know when death will touch us and it is our duty, therefore, to look around us, to be grateful for each minute. But we should also be grateful to death, beacause it makes us think about the importance of each decision we take, or fail to take; it makes us stop doing anything that keeps us stuck in the category of the 'living dead' and, instead, urges us to risk everything, to bet everything on those things we always dreamed of doing, because, whether we like it or not, the angel of death is waiting for us.
Death as a daily companion says: ' I will touch you, but you don't know when. Therefore live life as intensely as you can and cherish every moment of it.'