Pharaoh laughed. “Nonsense! You were always worthy — you just needed to trip a few times before you found your footing.”
And so, Menes returned to service — not as Pharaoh’s humor scribe, but as Royal Chronicler of the Common Folk. His stories were carved into temple walls and shared across the Nile.
Years later, when he was old and gray, he told a group of students:
“I used to think success meant being perfect. But the truth is, success is what happens when you keep writing after everyone’s stopped laughing.”
