There was a scholar who was to marry his
fiancée, but on the day of
marriage, his fiancée changed her mind and
married someone else. The
scholar was devastated and fell ill. His family
seek all kinds of
medical treatment for him, but still he showed
no sign of recovery. They were
about to give up hope on him when a wandering
monk passed by.
After learning about the scholar's condition,
the monk walked to the
scholar's bed and took out a mirror for the
dying man to see.
In the mirror, the scholar saw a vast ocean, and
the naked body of a
murdered woman lay on the beach. A man passed
by, looked at the body, shook his head and left.
Another man who passed by saw the body,
took off his robes to cover the body and left.
Finally came a man passing by
who saw the body, dug a hole and laid the body
carefully to rest before burying it.
The scene in the mirror suddenly changed. The
scholar saw his fiancée
in a nuptial chamber and another man was lifting
her wedding veil...
The scholar blinked at the monk, confused.
Slowly the monk explained, "The woman whose body
you saw on the beach
was your fiancée in her previous life. In your
previous life, you
were the
second man who gave her his robes to cover her
body. To repay your
kindness in this lifetime, she loved you for a
period of time and
became your fiancée. However, ultimately the man
whose favor she has to return
for the rest of her life is the third man who
buried her. And that man
is now
her husband."
Enlightened, the scholar sat up and recovered
from his depression.
It is truly amazing -- this thing called "Fate".
There was a movie in which the theme song went
like this: "You can
say it is a big world, you can say it is a small
world. But for the
promise of
this lifetime, we shall spend our entire lives
to fulfil."
All of us are in this big grand masquerade,
among the throng of
people, we seek expectantly... in that
electrifying moment when our
fingers touch, the masks are removed to reveal
our true selves.
Before this moment, we were drifting aimlessly,
not knowing what we
really wanted. Till you meet this particular
person, you finally
realize what
you really want is not what you have wished for
in the first place.
It
amazes you that standing in front of this person
is a different you!
You
without any mask!
Fate is not something meant to be forced upon.
What is yours will eventually come to your arms;
what is not yours
will never come to be. In any case, we should
not lose heart and
give up on
our hopes for love that is true, good and
beautiful.
The value of life, in a certain sense, is
determined by the maturity
of how we love. Of how we give and accept love.
Treasure what you have...
Time is too slow for those who wait;
Too swift for those who fear;
Too long for those who grief;
Too short for those who rejoice;
But for those who love...
Time is Eternity