Theme: Collaboration, selfishness
The paper and the pencil
In the art room, materials were waiting for students to
start the activities. The agitated pencil was tracing
and strolling over an old notebook when it came across a
very white sheet. As it picked it up, it heard an angry
voice:
- Whoa! Leave me out of it. You can scratch the ignorant
papers, but not me.
- And why not? - Asked the pencil.
- Look how white I am, I don’t want to get all dirty
getting wrapped around.
Very surprised, the pencil explained that there is
nothing dirty and wrong in the drawings. They are the
expression of inspiration and the feelings of children.
We have been made for this purpose and being chosen to
represent a fine art is a privilege. The most important
thing is not to be clean and intact, but to be useful.
They were in this discussion when a group of children
arrived and began to read the instructions happily,
before the beginning of the activities.
The pencil asked the paper sheet to observe how the
children are happy with the drawings and how much
affection the other sheets receive because they are
useful.
- If you knew how rewarding it is to help, feel the
touch of a helping hand and receive a loving poem! If
you let yourself, you could be so happy, because life is
too brief.
The sheet replied that it was fine this way, white and
sheltered, and didn’t want to go through the dirty hands
of everyone. And it still laughed at the pencil
sentimentality.
- Do not insist! This subject is closed! - Finished the
sheet.
At that moment, someone spills juice on the table and
looks for something to clean it. In the absence of cloth
or napkin, the boy took a paper, and someone shouted.
- Not my drawing!
- Neither mine!
- Much less mine!
The boy then took the white sheet and rubbed it over the
juice before the eyes of the pencil.
- Poor paper sheet! What a sad end for those who cared
so much about whiteness and purity! Thought the pencil.
We were made to live, to love and to be loved, and
isolation removes the human being from all of this.
Diving into life, planting smiles, teaching and
learning, exposing yourself and taking risks with
feelings and ideas is necessary, because life is made of
constant reflection and learning.
Text by Lúcia
Noll.
Translation:
Larissa Martine - larissa_am@hotmail.com
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