Michelangelo had said that “every block of stone has a statue inside it and it is the task of the sculptor to discover it”. The same is true for people. We all hide something great inside, waiting for the right circumstances to externalise, to gain form and light.
Like an artist expresses something of himself on a sculpture, so we too live our lives as an expression of who we are.
Also part of Weekend Writing Prompt #144
He was born out of wedlock so had no right to education. He was considered an outcast and society looked down on him. Yet he managed to ignore them all – all those eyes who stared with loathing when he walked by, as if he had stolen something from them, as if they had become lesser people because of his existence.
He was curious of the world. Of how everything was structured to make things work so seamlessly. He was astonished by the way birds used their wings to fly or how water was present almost everywhere. He had a mind that was constantly alert. His thoughts would keep him awake at night and without food, for he was too busy thinking about how he could make improvements in an already magnificently built world. He wanted humans to go further. But they had to want that too.
He was a scientist, an inventor, a sculptor, an artist, a musician, a thinker. He was a genius. One who comprehended the need to go out and do things to achieve something. One the world acknowledged too late in time.
He was the one who proved the world was a better place because of him. But people couldn’t see it.
His name was Leonardo.
“There are three classes of people: those who see, those who see when they are shown, those who do not see”
“Learning is the only thing the mind never exhausts, never fears, and never regrets”
– Leonardo Da Vinci
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