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@wingiby-iggiby @anyone (Here is another short thing… No where near a short-story, that is, it is a very ‘short story’. (: I hope you like it!)

 

4/2/20

 

Sketching With Ink…

 

^  A young man, stopped by an elder man’s booth. Sketches lined all the walls. All magnificent. All appearing to be done with pen.

^  Did you sketch it out with pencil, and then trace over it with ink?

–   The wizened face smiled, No, all with pen.

^   Why? You can’t erase your mistakes?

–   Exactly. Sketching with pen, causes me to take time. It teaches me about life.

^  How is that sir?

–  When you make a mistake, you can’t erase it. It is there, and you are powerless to make it go away. You can try to smudge it with water; until it is only a pale impression of what it was, but it is still there. The picture is changed. A shadow will always remain.

Or, when you make a mistake, you can face it. You can recognize the mistake, and do your best to make it right. You can change that strange blob into something beautiful…like a cat, or a bird! It is still there; but you have made it right.

You can try to hide the wrong, and forget about it (even though a smudge will always be in your mind, even if no other notices). Or you can recognize it, and change it into something beautiful. No one may know that a mistake led to the final masterpiece; but you will.

^ The young man was speechless, looking into the pale eyes of the gray headed man. He than sat at the artist’s feet; waiting to hear more.

 

‘The fool doth think he is wise; but the wise man knows himself to be a fool.’

 

‘It is better to remain silent at the risk of being thought a fool,

 than to talk and remove all doubt of it.’

 

‘It is the mark of the educated mind

to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it.’