The three pivot points of life

　There is a very small bird that can fly tens of thousands of miles across the Pacific Ocean. All it needs is a small branch. It takes the branch in its beak, throws it to the water when it is tired, and then flies down to rest on the branch for a while; when it is hungry, it stands on the branch to catch fish; when it is sleepy, it stands on the branch to sleep.

　　A branch, a wish, a persistence.

　　We can't help but admire the bird's wisdom, envy the bird's simplicity, and be surprised by the bird's focus. Wisdom, simplicity, and focus are the three fulcrums of life in human beings, right?

　　A mentally handicapped child is annoying to everyone, including his parents. He cries all day long and makes scary faces, his body keeps writhing, and no one can make him stop. His parents have to take care of him 24 hours a day or he will destroy everything in the house. He slept only three hours a day, and during those three hours he would wake up suddenly. His father tried several times to send him to a social institution, but just couldn't make up his mind.

　　At the age of six, the child could not speak a single word and had great difficulty reciting a single word. And he began to be reluctant to meet people. The doctor diagnosed and told his parents, "Poor boy, he has autism."

　　No one could educate him, so they had to turn to a rehabilitation center. So the parents took him to a child care center. The teachers there couldn't discipline him either, because he kept screaming in class and frightening the other children. His hands were constantly playing with things, not resting for a moment, even moving when he was sleeping.

　　The teacher said that such a child was hopeless and should be left to fend for himself. One day, the child found a water pen on the ground and used it to draw a line on the ground. Then, he kept playing with the water pen and kept drawing lines on the ground, and no one stopped him from doing so.

　　The next day, he continued to draw. The attentive teacher noticed these lines he had drawn and exclaimed, "My God, he can draw."

　　In fact, the lines were not paintings, just lines that a mentally handicapped child could draw in circles and squares; it was surprising enough.

　　Instead of taking it away from him as usual, the teacher laid white paper on the floor and let him draw on it; and gave him different colors of water pens and let him try to use them.

　　This idiot just kept grabbing his water brush and spent all his time except for sleeping making drawings. There was no one to guide him, his world was just himself and the water brush.

　　Ten years later, his painting was taken to an auction and it sold unexpectedly and was favored by many senior painters.

　　That's how he became famous. His name is Richard Van Sule, a native of Scotland. His works have been exhibited more than one hundred times in Europe and North America, and have sold more than one thousand pieces, each of which sells for two thousand dollars.

　　Many people are now lamenting that a mentally handicapped child can become a painter, but who have overlooked such a detail: there is no other temptation or distraction in his eyes, only his water pen, which he still holds even when he is eating. How many normal people can do that?