A young child is enjoying his afternoon marveling at a painting one of his classmates had created. It had a bright yellow and orange sun setting behind a small hill. There was a big tree and a few stick figures as people scattering the foreground. The young child couldn’t take his eyes off of the painting. The painting consumed his thoughts and he constantly plotted ways to obtain such paintings for himself.
His father walked into the room and noticed how his son was in deep admiration of the painting. The child did not notice his father because the painting had such a grip on him. This went on for about week. Time after time the father would walk into his son’s room but no attention would be paid to him.
At the end of the week the father new he had to find a way to get his son’s attention. The sun was setting behind the buildings of the city casting a majestic glow under the clouds. The city shined bright with orange, red, purple, and blue all vividly lighting up the sky. The father, knowing that this was just the thing to snap his son out of it, quickly ran to the room. He called his son to follow him outside, but his son resisted! The son rebutted that his picture was far more important then what ever it was his father was trying to show him. But, with increasing urgency his father coursed him up to the roof. As they were climbing the final steps the father saw the beautiful sun set and immediately knocked his son on the head for thinking that his painting could have ever compete with such a glorious sight.
The son, first mad that he had to leave his painting, now furious that he had a bump on his head, looked up at his father in pure anger and shouted why!? Why did you take something so precious away from me and then knock me on the head!? His father answered. Just open your eyes. As the son turned to gaze upon sunset everything simply melted away. The obsession with the painting, the pain in his head, and even the anger in his heart towards his father. The son realized how little he knew about the beautiful things of this earth, he realized he was so caught up in his painting that he had forgotten that there is so much more to life, and all that he needed was a knock on the head.
This is a true story that happened to a small child named Steve Benson about an hour ago.
