There were identical sheets of blank paper in a stack on the desk. But one day one of them turned out to be completely covered with hooks, lines, curls, and dots. Apparently, someone took a pen and, dipping it in ink, wrote words on the sheet of paper and painted it with drawings.
“Why did you need to subject me to such unheard-of humiliation?” - the saddened piece of paper asked the inkwell standing on the table. “Your indelible ink has stained my whiteness and ruined the paper forever!” Who will need me like this now?
- Don't push! — the inkwell answered affectionately. “They didn’t want to humiliate you or tarnish you at all, they just made the necessary recording.” And now you are no longer a simple piece of paper, but a written message. From now on, you store a person’s thought, and this is your direct purpose and great value.
The good inkwell turned out to be right. While cleaning up his desk one day, a man saw randomly scattered sheets of paper, yellowed with age. He collected them and was about to throw them into the burning fireplace, when he suddenly noticed that same “stained” piece of paper. Throwing away the dusty pieces of paper as unnecessary, the man carefully placed the scribbled piece of paper in the desk drawer in order to preserve it as a message of reason.
Translated from Russian · original on wisdomlib.ru