Crayon Lesson (take a lesson from crayons):
Many crayons in the box may look similar though no two are alike, they are each unique individual crayons. Some are sharp, some are beautiful, some may appear to be neither... all are different colors... some have names that are strange, weird, or maybe just a bit unusual to us but such doesn't affect the importance of the said crayon.
Here's the kick, they all exist in the same box. When they come together to do a task, they are capable of creating beautiful and wonderful things. And while they can make ugly useless things, this does not take away from their importance, purpose, and what they are capable of doing.
As for that box they come in, notice how all these different crayons all fit just perfect in there, quite nicely among each other, just so long as you aren't trying to be forceful upon some of them. Another thing is that if you loose enough of those individual crayons, it can cause harm to the others in the box that are left jostling around and getting broken. Each one is important to the box as the box is important to them.!
Every story has an end. But in life, every ending is just a new beginning.
Bonus Bit:
I must say, there's no one right way to use a crayon. Just because you don't see another way doesn't mean your way is the only way or even the best way and the way that works best for one art doesn't always work or work well for another art. The attached picture below demonstrates one interesting way that you may not have thought of before.
Think about all that for a moment.
(As a reward for reading all of that, try this: go to http://images.google.com and type the words... crayon art. Then feast your eyes on all the cool crayon art inventions.)
There's no one right way to use a crayon.
*I original wrote this over on my Facebook page in 2014, The Great Discussion, a page inspired by the wisdom shared from the late author Daniel Quinn. You can view that here: https://www.facebook.com/notes/the-great-discussion/crayon-lesson/590916084361365/