Legend told, one mid-day in Calcutta, India, in a small street where the lepers slept and the homeless wept, Mother Teresa came to them to tell stories of mankind.
"Mankind is definitely a strange species, all to ourselves," she said. "On crucial times, although God is watching, we would not acknowledge Him. Thus, committing our greatest sins," she told with such humility, inviting the people to learn from one another.
"Do you think man would ever stop, Mother Teresa?" asked a man.
"A long time ago, a man thought something very small would help," said Mother Teresa, "this man created a comma (,)."
"Did it mean anything to us at the time?" the same man asked the question.
"By Jove, it has!" said Mother Teresa, as she was pleased by his response to her story. "A comma, symbolizes a slight rest in our manners of speech." She smiled at him, and opened her right palm. "We seldom pay attention to our own speech and dialects. But, this comma made it so, that we would rest to take note of our words," said Mother Teresa to him.
"What does it look like?" Another man shouted.
"It is a small brush stroke of an India ink, resembling the crescent moon," said Mother Teresa, as she kneeled towards a water puddle on the street to touch it, and stroked the speck of water to a dry wall to illustrate the crescent moon comma.
"That is too simple, madam!" shouted the man, as a protest to such a small example.
"It is always the simple things in life, such as: clean air, water, and true love that makes us alive," said Mother Teresa to her lovely friends.
"May we learn from you, Mother Teresa?" shouted another man from the crowd of people, listening to her story and wisdom.
"Of all things, may we all learn good things from one another," said Mother Teresa. She humbly bowed and smiled at him, as the crowds became larger from the gathering of people.
"Thank you, and we love you Mother Teresa!" shouted a man she had helped in the past with support, because he felt someone cared to inform him.
"Do you have another story?" asked a young man.
"I have not yet finished, my love," said Mother Teresa, as she began to laugh. "This time, I know you would like to see a most simple invention." Mother Teresa daubed a spot onto the dry wall again, and said, "This is a dot (.) or a period."
"Is this for another pause?" questioned a young woman.
"This is for a full stop, to completely pause between our speech," said Mother Teresa, as she became silent for a moment, to symbolize the complete pause she spoke about.
"Is this common knowledge, Mother Teresa?" shouted the young woman.
"Is this by the Romans?" everyone asked one another.
"Does not matter whether Greeks, nor Romans, we have another most unique invention," Mother Teresa said, but this time there was a long silence that gave her a few moments to think before she spoke.
"The Greeks have known this too?" asked a young man, who was thirsty for knowledge.
"The latest invention is called "semi-colon (;)," she said, "it is for a minor stop between our speech but for differing ideas or perceptions."
This time, she spots the dot on the dry wall, along with the stroke of the crescent moon comma, directly underneath.
"How amazing Mother Teresa! Mankind invented the most ingenious ways to learn," said the young man, who was completely amazed by new information.
"We are greatly intelligent!" said a young woman, who smiled from ear to ear.
"We are still lesser than God, my children," said Mother Teresa, who readied to leave the gathering.
"Although I know many of you have been enlightened, I still believe it is still the simple things in life we are to be proud of," said Mother Teresa, as she looked down towards the water puddle on the ground, wishing for simplicity of bare necessities for the people she cared for.
The people in the crowd began to weep because they were honored by her presence. They saw how humble, intelligent, and kind her heart shined amongst them on that day.
"Remember how small and simple these inventions are. Yet, they are strong enough to educate us; to learn from one another," she softly uttered, to a little Indian boy as she tucked his stranded curls away from his face, behind his ear.
Mother Teresa continued, "I must go now, there are still so much work to be done," as she walked towards another path.
The crowd of people subsided and the people of Calcutta still remembered this story, of how one day Mother Teresa taught the world to enjoy life together while learning from each other at its present moment.
The End.
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