Making Sandcastle
A little boy is on his knees scooping and packing the sand with plastic shovels into a bright blue bucket. Then he upends the bucket on the surface and lifts it. And, to the delight of the little architect, a castle tower is created.
All afternoon he will work, scooping out the moat and package the walls. Bottle tops will be sentries. Sticks will be bridges. A sandcastle will be built.
Big city. Busy streets. Rumbling traffic.
A man in his office. At his desk, ht outs papers into stacks and assigns tasks. The phone is on his shoulder and he is knocking the keyboard with his finger. Contracts are signed and much to the delights of the mam, a profit is made.
All his life he will work, formulating the plans, forecasting the future. Profits will be sentries. Capital gains will be bridges. And empire will be built.
Two builders of two castles. They have much in common. They shape little pebbles into grand buildings. They are dilligent and determined. And for both. the tide will rise and the end will come.
Yet that is where the similarities stop. For the boy sees the end while the man ignores it.
Watch the boy as the dusk approach. As the waves near, the wise child jumps to his feet and begins to clap. There is no sorrow. No fear. No regret. He knew this would happend. He is not surprised. And when the great breaker crashed into his castle and his masterpiece is sucked into the sea, hi smiles. He smiles, picks uo his toolsm taken his father's hand, and goes home.
The grown ups, however, is not so wise. As the wave of years collapses on his castle, he is terrified. He tried to protect the sandly monument. He blocks the waves from the walls he has made. Salt water-soaked and shivering he snarls at the incoming tide.
"It's my castle," he protested.
The ocean need not respond. Both know to whom the sand belongs.
I don't know much about sandcastles. But children do. Watch them and learn. Go ahead and built with a child's heart. When the sun sets and the tides take -- applaud. Salute the process of life and go home.
Quotes :
We set numerous goals in our life, and with the time passing by, we have become accustomed to achieving one goal after another and the importance of enjoying the process is ignored.
Enjoy the process of constructing but please do remember all the construction will be destroyed sooner or later.
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