Tuesday, December 13, 2011

Love and Marriage Explained beautifully

A student asked a teacher, “What is love?”  The teacher said, “In order to answer your question, go to a wheat field and choose the biggest wheat and come back.  However, the rule is that you may only go through it once and are unable to turn back.”  The student went to a wheat field, through the first row, and saw a big wheat, but wondered if there would be a bigger one later waiting for him.  Eventually he walked through over half of the field and began to realize that none were as big as the previous one.  He knew he missed the biggest one, and, regretting his decision, went to the teacher empty-handed.  The teacher told him, “This is love.  You keep looking for a better option, but you eventually realize you’ve missed the person you should be with.”  The student then asked, “Well, what is marriage then?”  The teacher said, “In order to answer, go to the corn field and choose the biggest corn and come back.  However, the rule is that you may only go through it once and are unable to turn back.”  The student went to the cornfield, and based on his previous experience, was careful to not repeat his original mistake.  By the time he was at the middle of the field, he had an average corn that he was satisfied with, and went back to the teacher.  The teacher said, “This time you brought back corn.  However, you looked for one that was ‘good enough’, and you had faith that it was the best one.  This is marriage.”

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