A short story by Paulo Coelho
A short story by Paulo Coelho
The father was trying to read the newspaper, but his young son did not stop harassing him, and when the father got tired of his son, he cut a paper in the newspaper that contained a map of the world and tore it into small pieces and presented it to his son
He asked him to reassemble the map and then went back to reading his newspaper, thinking that the child would be busy arranging the map for the rest of his day.
However, fifteen minutes had not passed before the child returned to him, rearranging the map. Surprised, the father asked:
Did your mother teach you geography?
The child replied: No, but there was a picture of a human being on the other side of the paper, and
when I rebuilt the human being, I rebuilt the world as well.