Rorschach tests

Yesterday my dad told me a story: A long time ago, the head of a family gave each of his family members a chopstick. He told them to break them. Each chopstick was broken easily. He then put a bundle of chopsticks together, and told them to try breaking them. No one could break them all at once.

My dad then asked me what the moral of the story was. I told him, “If we can’t break all the chopsticks at once, we can break them one at a time.”

He said, “No! It’s that a family that sticks together is unbreakable!”

We had a good laugh about it, but I understood his view. It is interesting how we interpreted the same story differently.