Wednesday, May 7, 2008

Deception of a Feather


Feathers are known to be one of the lightest objects on earth. The furry and soft textures of the feathers are often admired by many, as it seems to give away an impression of peace and harmony. Its light weight allows it to float in the air, and when breeze passes by it moves gently along with the air in a harmonic motion. But what we do not really know is that the feathers actually contain stories, untold stories perhaps, from many centuries till to date. Feathers were being used as a writing instrument, where famous writer such as Shakespeare once wrote its famous plays and literature, and powerful words from leaders or poets or prophets and so on.

A simple feather may seem as simple as it is, just a line of furs with a tip for ink. Yet, when it falls onto a hand of a writer then it would somehow become a powerful weapon. Sometimes it is so powerful that it changes humanity, yet it is not the feather that makes the changes but the handler, its master. Many words are often written in different language throughout the world, but most commonly is English as we see today. Hence, as light as it seems and as harmless as it seems to be, but in actual fact the feather can be very harmful when it is in the hand of a man who has powerful words that can actually shape the world, whether it is good or bad. Many people can write just about anything these days, from a short article to long one. The ideas are being put in words so as to let others to read and to comprehend them. Besides, knowledge is infinite in this universe as we can spend our lifetime to learn and understand the unknowns but yet it is just too many, infinite. But it is all put in words as to let our future generations to learn and know, as to educate them.

Deception it is, as a feather may seem as simple as it is. But yet, looks can be very deceiving as it can be, because we often judge a book by its cover. We are compelled to be deceived as it is out nature to hesitate at times, yet it is an error or a mistake which made by everybody. Learn we shall from such errors, as it educates us to be more intelligent and be much more aware. Fools we are or may be, but yet no one is ever perfect as mortals like us do not live forever. Again, and again, feathers may be simple and light but it can be powerful as we would never imagine.

By Jack Ho

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