“What is life?”
A student asked Socrates.
Socrates took his disciples to the apple tree forest.
“Walk to the end of the forest and pick one of your favorite apples. Once selected, it cannot be reversed and should not be reversed. There’s only one choice.”
The students studied the apples carefully and tried to choose the biggest and best. Socrates was waiting in advance as they arrived at the end of the forest.
“I’m sure everyone has picked the best apple?”
The students compared each other’s apples, and one said, “Teacher, let me pick one more time. I saw a really big, nice apple just as I entered the forest. But I didn’t pick it because I thought I would find a bigger and better one. When I came to the end of the apple tree forest, I realized that the first apple I saw was the best.
Another student quickly said, “I’m the opposite. As soon as I entered the forest, I chose the apple that I thought was the biggest and the best, but later I saw better one. I regretted it.
Socrates laughed and said, “That’s life. Life is always a one-time choice.”
We are at a crossroads of many choices every day. What to eat, whether to move to another company or not, whether to marry this person or not…. These choices accumulate and determine our lives and futures.
But at least shouldn’t it be a conscious choice?
Only then you can accept that life is an option. And to make the right choice, first you need to know yourself.
The real choice for my life begins with ‘looking within me’.
Source: maummonthly.com
