Monday, December 10, 2007
what is love?
what is love?
here's what i feel about love:
one day, while reading a book, a little boy came across the word 'love' and he asked his teacher a question in class.
boy: "teacher, what is love?"
teacher: "you want to know what love is eh? well.. do me a favour, run along to the grass field outside and pick the most beautiful flower you can find and bring it back to me. you can only pick one flower each time, and you are not allowed to turn back to retrieve a flower you've missed."
teacher: "now run along my dear."
the boy went out the grass field, in search of the most beautiful flower he could find, and the one he thought would be the one he would want to keep to himself.
and when he finally came back..
teacher: "oh my, why didnt you come back with anything?"
boy: "that's because each time when i thought i found the most beautiful flower, i looked up and i saw more flowers further up the grass field. i was tempted to move on and check them out. the same thing happened again when i kept moving through the grass field, and i just could not lay my hands on any flowers, because i saw more flowers along the way and they were so tempting."
boy: "plus you said i couldnt turn back to the flowers i've passed, and sometimes when i've moved on, i realised that the flower i chose to give up was actually much prettier than the one i was standing next to now."
teacher: "now that is love my dear, it disappears the moment when you arent paying attention, you pass by it unknowingly until you finally look back and realised that you've missed out on the love of your life. and when you think you've found the most beautiful person to be with, you will always look for something better, just like how you spotted more flowers up the grass field, discarded the flower which you thought was the most beautiful and moved on, just only to be too late to realise that you've gave up on the person you should have been with."
teacher: "love is all about being contented and happy with what you already have, treasuring every single moment you have with the person you've always wanted to be with, that's when you know you mean it when you say i love you to that special someone."
i'm contented, are you?
i love you,
deon.
Under the tree@
{5:23 AM.
