Dutchboy can't you see he beauty of “The Parable of the Pebble and the Pond” is that your responses say more about you than the “The Parable of the Pebble and the Pond”.
Dutchboy is right. This is nothing more than sugarcoating the nature of man.
There isn't anything "written on your soul" unless God puts it there. We don't write anything. God writes it all. If one does not understand that, then they don't understand what God has given them.