Sunday, November 09, 2008

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

The teacher said, "In order to answer your question, go to the padi field and choose the biggest padi 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 field, walked through the first row, saw one big padi, but he wonders.. maybe there is a bigger one later.

Then he saw another bigger one but maybe there is an even bigger one waiting for him.

Later, when he finished more than half of the padi field, he start to realise that the padi is not as big as the previous one he saw, he knows that he has already missed the biggest one and he regretted.

So, he went back to the teacher without a single padi.

The teacher told him, "This is love. You keep looking for a better one, but in the end, you have already missed 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 picked a medium-sized corn that he is satisfied with and went back to the teacher.

The teacher told him, "This time, you looked for a corn that is just nice and you had faith and
believed that this is the best one you get. This is marriage..."

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