- As I was walking today I noticed from a distance a number of colorful diamonds in the sky, kites. I decided that it might be fun to travel to the place from which they were flown. It took me some time, but eventually I found them, the kite flyers.
I expected kinship, but when I came upon them I was appalled to see the children who held the strings, also held on to the basest of human attitudes, mockery and contempt. For as their kites were flying in the winds above, their eyes were trained upon a man who had attempted and failed to set himself sail as a kite. He had done this in a crude and haphazard fashion, but he had done it none the less.
I reprimanded one of the children.
“You should leave this poor man and his dreams alone.”
“He deserves nothing but scorn,” the child replied.
“I long to sail in the sky,” the man screamed into the winds.
“We have nothing but contempt for you!” The children all shouted.
“Rest assured,” I told the children, “this man has already flown higher than your kites will ever go. His visions alone are worth far more than the lot of you.”
Just then a strong wind ripped across the hillside dislodging the childrens’ kites from their hands. In the ensuing panic and scramble for their prized possessions, not one of them realized that the man they held in contempt had flown away.