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. But 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."*
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