The scientist and his son

This is a story I heard a few years ago. It’s an excellent story and I think everyone can learn from it. I say this because years later I’m still learning from it.

In the basement of a humble home, a father worked on his new invention, he was a scientist. He was working relentlessly one day, when his youngest son came in to his laboratory with the hopes of helping his father with the new invention. His work was too complicated for the small child, and he didn’t want to be distracted and so he said to they boy “Come back tomorrow and we’ll see” thinking the boy would forget and allow him to work. Yet, they boy did not forget, and he came back the next day asking his father if he could help. The father was upset he was being distracted from his work, and he wanted to find something he could entertain the boy with. He tore off a page from a magazine that had a picture of the world; then he ripped it into hundreds of pieces, and handed them to his son along with some tape, “Now put it back together”. Only a few minutes later, the child came back with a perfect taped up picture of the world, and he handed it back to his father. His father was in awe, how could a small boy who doesn’t even know what the world looks like put together this picture in such a small amount of time? “Son, how did you do this?” he asked, and the boy answered, “Well, I turned all the pieces around and I saw it looked like the picture of a person, and I pieced back the person and when I turned it around I had the picture of the world”. The small boy knew what a person looked like, so by fixing the person first he was then able to fix the world.

We can reflect upon the message of this story, that in order to have a better world we must first become better people.

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