I came across this quotation when I was looking for a chapter that Robert Fulghum wrote about crayons. Bill Watterson’s quotation isn’t cheery, but then, his creations—Calvin and Hobbes—aren’t cheery, either; they’re wry and memorable and true.
"A box of new crayons! Now they're all pointy, lined up in order, bright and perfect. Soon they'll be a bunch of ground down, rounded, indistinguishable stumps, missing their wrappers and smudged with other colors. Sometimes life seems unbearably tragic."
~Bill Watterson
Keep in mind the fate of the Velveteen Rabbit, who had his fur and his features loved off. Was he more beautiful in love-crumpled disarray or when he was fuzzy-new and
bright-eyed?
Velveteen Rabbit -- a much beloved bed time story -- of course he is far more beautiful with the sheen of love. It is how we age, parts become wrinkled, lines smudge, brightness on the outside fades as the inside glows more warmly with so much love that the outside is enhanced with character and we once again fall in love with the beauty that only time can bring -- crinkles to the corners of the eyes from peering at new adventures of mind and body, more crinkles at the corners of our mouths form shared laughter and joy, and even the softening of the body as we relax into life -- moving beyond making a living to MAKING A LIFE!
ReplyDelete