A scientist who was preoccupied with the problems of the world, was determined to find the means to diminish them. He spent whole days in his laboratory, looking for answers to his doubts.
One day, his 7 year old son invaded that shrine with the intention of helping him work. The scientist, nervous about the interruption, tried to get the child to play somewhere else. Seeing that it would be impossible to get him out of there, he tried to distract her attention.
He ripped the page out of a magazine depicting the world, cut it into pieces with scissors, and handed it to the boy with a roll of tape, saying,
— Do you like puzzles? I'm going to give you the world to fix. Here it is, all broken. See if you can fix it right!
He calculated that it would take the child days to recompose the map. A few hours later, he heard that he was calling him:
— Dad, Dad, I did it! I got it all over!
At first, the scientist did not believe the child's words. It was impossible that at his age he had recomposed a map he had never seen. Then he lifted his eyes from his notes, sure he would see a job worthy of a child. To his surprise, the map was complete: all the pieces were in the indicated place.
— You did not know what the world is like, son, how did you get it?
— I did not know what the world was like, but when you took the page out of the magazine, I saw that on the other side was the figure of a man. I tried to fix the world but I did not get it. It was then that I turned the cuts and started to fix the man, which I knew how it was. When I finished, I turned the page and saw that it had fixed the world.
Source:
Jaime Lopera & Marta Bernal
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