画龙点睛
Add the Eyes, and the Whole Thing Comes Alive
Sometimes the final small touch is the step that makes everything feel alive.
“画龙点睛”的故事里，画家先把龙都画好了，可偏偏没有点眼睛。别人觉得奇怪，他却说：眼睛一点上去，龙就会飞走。后来，他真的点上最后那一下。传说里，龙一下就活了起来。你不一定要把这个传说当真，可大家都明白这个故事在说什么。有时候，一件事前面已经做了很多很多，最后最关键的那一步一到，整个东西忽然就亮了。“画龙点睛”说的，就是这种最后一下的力量。
In the story of “adding eyes to the dragon,” a painter finished the whole dragon but left out the eyes. Other people were puzzled, but he said that once the eyes were added, the dragon would fly away. Then he made the final stroke. In the legend, the dragon suddenly came alive. You do not have to believe the legend literally to understand why people kept the story. Sometimes a great deal of work is already finished, and then one final important step suddenly makes the whole thing shine. That is the power remembered by “adding eyes to the dragon.”