From a 5-Minute Drawing to a Lesson I’ll Carry Forever
From a 5-Minute Drawing to a Lesson I’ll Carry Forever The Ass and His Shadow Illustration By Jhamfong.Art Today, I finished a sketch inspired by one of Aesop’s short but powerful classics, “The Ass and His Shadow.” At first, the story feels simple, almost too simple. A traveler, a donkey, and an argument about who gets to sit in the animal’s shadow. But as I sketched the scene, I realized how deeply human the message is. In the fable, the traveler and the driver argue so intensely about something so trivial that they fail to notice the most important thing: the donkey itself walks away. Their stubbornness makes them lose the very thing they were fighting over. While drawing, I kept thinking about moments in life when we, too, lose sight of what truly matters. We get distracted by pride, small annoyances, misunderstandings, or petty disagreements. We fight battles that don’t feed our soul. We cling to the shadow and forget the substance. Here are the lessons tha...
