A student asks 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."
The student went to the field, go through first row, he saw one
big
paddy, 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
paddy
field, he start to realize that the paddy 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 realize, you have already missed the
person."
The student asked, "What is marriage then?"
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 felt satisfied, and came 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."