taken from YC's blog..
What is love? and what is marrige?
A student asks a teacher, "What is love?"
The teacher said, "in order to answer your question, go to the padi field and choose the biggest padi 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 thru first row, he saw one big padi, but he wonders.... maybe there is a bigger one later. Then he saw another bigger one... but may be there is a even bigger one waiting for him
Later, when he finished more than half of the padi field, he start to realize that the padi 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 better one, but when later you realize, you have already miss the person
What is marriage then?" the student asked
The teacher said, "in order to answer your question, go to 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 feel satisfy, and come 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."