In a small classroom, there was a boy named Leo who loved colors more than anything. But Leo did not collect new crayons. He collected broken ones. Every time his friends threw away short, snapped crayons, Leo picked them up and kept them in a small blue box. “They are still colors,” he always said with a smile.
One day, the art teacher announced a drawing contest. Many students brought big boxes of shiny, new crayons. Leo only brought his little blue box full of broken pieces. When the contest started, some children laughed. But Leo carefully used each small crayon. He mixed tiny pieces together and created the brightest sunset anyone had ever seen. The broken crayons worked together to make something beautiful.
At the end of the day, Leo won the contest. The teacher said, “You did not just draw a picture. You showed us that nothing is useless.” From that day on, the children stopped throwing away broken crayons. And they also stopped thinking that small, imperfect things could not do great things. Because sometimes, what looks broken is just waiting to shine.