Greed. Appreciation.

you know your excitement when you're blowing and blowing a piece of rubber and it slowly expands to become a balloon?

yeah, so you continue blowing until it becomes really big, and yet you still want it to continue growing, and you give all your breath away, til the balloon grows too big and bursts instead.

what do you have in the end? pieces of what you had initially, despite the hard work.

and pencils. when they're blunt, they can still be used, but you want to sharpen them for better quality. you sharpen and sharpen and sharpen away, til it's as sharp as a needle. looks beautiful, indeed.

but what's the point? once you put it to paper, it breaks.

so what is the lesson learnt? is it to not be too greedy? maybe.

and learn to be appreciative.  just imagine if you don't have something, even though you don't like it right now. everyone's complaining about the heat today, and someone tweeted about shooting down the sun. is that really better?

just imagine the world, the universe, without the sun. that's just horrible! no warmth, no light, no solar energy or whatever it's called.

o well. i guess metaphorical blindness is just a common human trait.