Marble

A hall in a big museum was covered with marble tiles. In the hall were various works of art, including an impressive statue made of marble. Every day hundreds of people pass by this statue and admire it, even taking pictures of it. One night the marble tiles started to complain...’we were made from the same marble, even cut off from the same place, and yet everyone marvels in front of you, while everyone steps all over us.’ The marble statue replied, ’that is true, but please remember that when the sculptor started to work on you, you resisted his tools.’ The tiles replied by saying ‘of course we were not ready to allow the hammer and chisels and grinders to attack us.’ The statue replied ‘well, since you resisted him, he started to work on me, and created this masterpiece instead, even though I suffered so much when he was hammering and chiseling away relentlessly. But I let him be the master craftsman that he is and created me, and placed me here in this museum. So, since you refused to let the artist create something out of you, don’t complain now that people walk all over you!’