The article begins with a story of a Man and his son exploring a foothill. They discovered a godlike stone which the son has misunderstood as gold. It was priceless iron pyrite the man told his son. It is called the fool’s gold. The story tried to link with the characteristics of rock with human nature. Rocks can be hard and brittle or soft and edible. A scale name Moh’s scale of hardness measures the mineral’s hardness. Where iron pirate falls somewhere between 6 and 6.5 gold is 2.5 to 3 on this scale.
A rock is weathered in a long period of time. Climatic factors play a vital role in forming a hard rock. It is polished by wind and water. It can’t be noticed with a single look what a rock has been through. But a careful inspection can identify the rough edges and hairline fractures. A mineral rock goes through a process which turns a sedimentary rock into a solid igneous rock. The entire process is called the rock cycle. The change in nature, temperature, and heat disintegrate and solidifies the rock.
Human nature can be linked to the characteristics of the rock. The writer tried to imply the changes of human nature through metaphoric rock’s story. Human being grows with time adapts to its environment. They make mistakes and learn from it. Through the journey of life they suffer, they improve their adaptability. Some of them become brittle and collapse. Some mistakes as fool’s gold. In the long run inner self-blossoms with continuous strive. The author tried to say that it would be better if the human can think of themselves as the rock.
