Just Like A Useful Pencil: Get Sharpened And Leave Your Mark

If we think deeply about a pencil, for it to be useful it needs to be sharpened time and time, again and again.

Annkur A Mehta, Ph.D
The Shortform
May 23, 2024

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Just imagine, if the pencil could feel, how painful sharpening would be, but that is what it takes to be a useful pencil.

Life is just the same. Painful experiences and challenges will come our way, but through these opportunities, we build our character and grow. We need to get sharpened to take out the best of us and leave a mark.

Likewise, we will correct as many mistakes in our lives, just like an eraser.

But if we choose to learn from our mistakes, then these mistakes can be useful lessons, which we can use them to our advantage and do better the next time around.

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Annkur A Mehta, Ph.D
The Shortform

A Ph.D. from Civil Engineering with a wide experience of research papers and books has re-invented his writing passion in short & medium-form niche.