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, went through the first row, saw one big paddy, and wondered, “Perhaps there will be a bigger one later.” Then he saw another bigger one, but thought again that be might be an even bigger one waiting for him.

Later, when he had finished more than half of the paddy field, he started to realize that the paddy he started to see were not as big as the previous ones he saw, and he knew that he has missed the biggest one, and he regretted it.

So, he ended up going back to the teacher empty-handed.The teacher told him, “This is love... You keep looking for a better one, and it is only when it is too late that you realize that you’ve missed the best person to love.”

The student asked, “What is marriage then?”And the teacher gain said, “In order to answer your question, go to the corn field and choose the biggest corn, then 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 careful not to repeat the previous mistake. When he reached the middle of the field, he picked one medium corn that he feel satisfied with, and went back to the teacher.

The teacher told him, “This time you brought back the corn that you found just nice, and you had faith and believed that this is the best one you would get.... This is marriage.”

credits to alicea(: