Serenity

Serenity

 

There is a story of  a king that wanted to explain to his 12 year old son the meaning of the word "Serenity". The king tries to explain to him many times but his son still doesn't understand. He called the wise men of his kingdom. But his son still does not understand the meaning of that word. Then the king has the tenacious idea to make an exhibition of paintings in which the central theme would be serenity. The price would be a bag of gold. 

 

The paintings star arriving to the palace from all the places around the kingdom. On the day of the exhibition, an old painter man that lived in the mountains brought his painting. The king's assistant received this picture with dread because it was a painting with dark colors representing a terrible storm. He thought that maybe the king will get mad with the painter.

 

The king began to look and analyze the pictures with intensity one after the other. Finally, the king saw the picture of the old man. He looked at it, walked away and the returns and looked at the picture one more time. Then the king looks at his assistant and tells him " this is the winning picture". "Son come and see what serenity is".

 

The boy comes and he observed, in the middle of the storm lightning and the sky blackened, there was a rock that was standing out of the sea and on top of it a small nest of birds. Inside of the nest there was a mother bird feeding her baby birds. The king, said to him: " son, that's serenity:To know, in the midst of the storm, which is your priority".

 

In the storm of life, (emotional, labor, family, economics, etc.), the solution is to maintain the calm on the mist of the storm to know what to do and have the courage to do so.