5 qualities of a pencil

1. quality: you are capable of great things, but you must never forget that there is a hand guiding your steps.
2. quality: now and then, I have to stop writing and use a sharpener. That makes the pencil suffer a little, but afterwards, he's much sharper. So you, too, must learn to bear certain painds and sorrows, because they will make you a better person.
3. 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.
4. quality: what really mattters in a pencil is not its wooden exterior, but the graphite inside. So always pay attention to what is happeninf 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.

Paulo Coelho "Like the Flowing Rivers"