Saturday, January 5, 2013

"Difference in Love and Marriage"

Story : "Difference in Love and Marriage"...

A student asks a teacher, "What is love?"

The teacher said, "in order to answer your question, go to the wheat field and choose the biggest wheat and come back.
http://t3.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcRDbiK7We5X-GEuJC3woFwusOJWXRtalXJNyZTWgCsFnH_m5xJB&t=1But the rule is: you can go through them only once and cannot turn back to pick."

The student went to the field, go thru first row, he saw one big wheat, but he wonders... may be there is a bigger one later.

Then he saw another bigger one... But may be there is an even bigger one waiting for him.

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

So, he ended up went back to the teacher with empty hand.

The teacher told him, "this is love... You keep looking for a better one, but when later you realise, you have already miss the person..."

"What is marriage then?" the student asked.

The teacher said, "in order to answer your question, go to the corn field 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."

The student went to the corn field, this time he is careful not to repeat the previous mistake, when he reach the middle of the field, he has picked one medium corn that he feel satisfy, and come back to the teacher. 
The teacher told him, "This time you bring back a corn. You look for one that is just nice, and you have faith and believe this is the best one you get... This is marriage."
I got it from my friend's status on Facebook.
Indeed regret comes late and most of time there is no turning back.
But  having faith and believe in what you had, we learn the beauty of life.
HAPPY NEW YEAR!!!

 
~Wilson Wijaya, Lee/5 Jan 2013~

2 comments:

Anonymous said...

why he didn't just take it, and when he sees bigger one take the bigger one. The teacher never told him to take only once

Unknown said...

indeed the teacher didn't say you could pick only one. When people told you to pick the "biggest", usually I will choose "one" as the biggest. In real life, we can pick one then bigger one and so on till we satisfy. If you regret it, you have no turning back (well in case of love).

I think the point of the story is that to be grateful and have faith on what we had now. There will always be greener on the other side, but how to make ours the greatest will be our task. Thank you :)