BOWKNOT

Do you still remember how you learned to tie a bowknot?
Was it your mom and dad who taught you hand-by-hand?
Or did you pick it up little by little, following the steps in books?
After an accidental fall, the boy’s shoelace came undone.

Through repeated clumsy attempts, he accidentally stumbled into learning how to tie a bowknot. Right after he mastered the skill, a wonderful little idea popped into his head: If shoelaces can be tied into a bowknot, what about all the other things in this whole wide world? Thereupon, he started using bowknots to solve one problem after another: he helped the kid who couldn’t reach the balloon, diffused the crisis brought by his own terrible math score, and rescued the little animals trapped in the forest fire…