Tuesday, December 12, 2006

Love and marriage

Love or relationship?
A once student asked a teacher, "What is love?"

The teacher said, "In order to answer your question, go to the paddy field and choose the biggest paddy and come back. But the rule is: you can go through them only once and cannot turn back to pick again."

With an exciting heart, the student went to the field, and go through the first row, he saw a big paddy, just to pick but then he hesitate and ponder…..
“Maybe there is a bigger one later.”

He didn’t pick that paddy and continue to walk through, this time, he saw another bigger paddy... but he still think
“Maybe there is another even bigger paddy waiting for him?”

After that, when he finished more than half of the paddy field, he start to realize that the paddy is not as big as the previous one he saw, he know he had missed the biggest, and he regretted.

So, he ended up went back to the teacher empty-handed.

The teacher told him, "That is Love, you keep looking for a better person, but when later you realized, you have already missed the best person...."

Feeling disappointed, the student asked his teacher again.
"What is marriage then?"

The teacher said, "In order to answer your question, go to the corn field again and choose the biggest corn and come back. But the rule is: You can go through them only once and cannot turn back to pick."

Then, the student went to the corn field.

This time, he was very careful not to repeat the previous mistake, when he reached the middle of the field, he picked on a medium corn that he was satisfied with, and came back to the teacher.

The teacher told him, "This time, you bring back a corn.... you looked for one which is just nice, and you have faith and believe this is the best one you get because you had being regretted once and…….....this is Marriage.

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