Sometimes when I am all out of sorts, confused, angry and in total discomfiture with myself and my surrounding, bang comes Paulo Coelho like a beacon of light on a stormy night and and as an effect am all raring to go...
Below is a post from Paulo Coelho produced in toto which I found in my regular face book update... Only when I was all feeling all lost and found my spirit flagging, this piece really lifted my spirit up. Apart from the inherent message that in order to build the world we have to focus on each human being, what the post also signifies is the simple approach one has to take in life to address one's problem one by one and voila ! will find that the rest of the problems are solving them selves and falling in to the jigsaw puzzle which will complete the picture of your happy life...
"A father was trying to read the newspaper, but his little son kept pestering him.
Finally, the father grew tired of this and, tearing a page from the newspaper – one that bore a map of the world – he cut it into several pieces and handed them to his son.
Finally, the father grew tired of this and, tearing a page from the newspaper – one that bore a map of the world – he cut it into several pieces and handed them to his son.
‘Right, now you’ve got something to do. I’ve given you a map of the world and I want to see if you can put it back together correctly.’
He resumed his reading, knowing that the task would keep the child occupied for the rest of the day.
However, a quarter of an hour later, the boy returned with the map.
However, a quarter of an hour later, the boy returned with the map.
‘Has your mother been teaching you geography?’ asked his father in astonishment.
‘I don’t even know what that is,’ replied the boy. ‘But there was a photo of a man on the other side of the page, so I put the man back together and found I’d put the world back together too."
