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“Beter één vogel in de hand dan tien in de lucht...”

Cappuccino asks his teacher, Mocha, what love is like, Mocha says...

"There is a garden which only has one entrance and one exit. You try to walk through that garden once with a limited period. You can only go forward, and cannot move backward. In the garden, choose only one that you think is the best among all kinds of fruits there. Remember, you may only have one and you have to bring it with you when you walk out of the exit."

Cappuccino walks into the garden, he sees the fruits there are many and various. They are all too attractive and captivating that he wants to have all of them. He walks and walks, in a short while he finds one that its color is the best. He picks it and intends to bring it home with him. As he walks farther and looks around, he discovers another fruit which has a wonderful aroma. He puts down the one in his hand and takes that with him. Ten more steps later, a fruit that has a very unique shape catches his attention unprepared. So, he quicly replaces the wonderfully smelled fruit with this uniquely shaped one. Just when he is headed for the exit, his legs are stopped by the biggest fruit he sees in the garden.

He considers the biggest one the best and decides to leave the garden with it. That fruit keeps growing bigger and bigger. Now it is just too heavy for him to move any forward. Time is running out and he no longer can bear the fruit, as a result, he drops it on the ground. He has no fruits in his hand now. He wants to go back and just get any of them. However, the rule of this game does not allow him to do so. Therefore, in the end, he walks out of the garden with empty hands.

Frustratedly Cappuccino goes back to Mocha and tells him that he has gotton nothing. Mocha says, this is how love is like.

In our lives, we will meet millions of people. It is rather hard to choose who we will want to spend our whole lives with. In this story, Cappuccino failed to get any fruits at last, simply because he could not make up his mind. Living in the world of extremely beautiful and/or interesting people, it is just impossible to find the best creature. Assume that you find this best person, he or she may not be the right one for you. The right person is sometimes just near by or around you, but you just do not notice.

"God provides every man's need," Mohandas Gandhi said, "but not every man's greed." Being demanding is no big problem, yet being too greedy has always been bad to us, we might lose more than what we gain because of that. Certainly, time, effort, and patience are always counted to find this best one to be your partner for life. Hence, when you have found this nearly perfect one for you, do not let go of him or her easily. I read an article on the net, it says that there are three persons we will encounter: first, the one who you love the most; then the one who loves you the most; and lastly, the one who you will be spending the rest your life with. Lucky you if they are the same person =)

Well, but just that you care a person, does not mean that you love him or her. And loving a person does not necessarily mean that you are in love with that person. The day Tom Cruise left Nicole Kiddman, he held her face saying to her with tears, "I still love you, but I'm not in love with you anymore..." (Awww... Poor dear beautiful Nicci had to see him go no matter how hard she cried and shouted...) Well, so, congratulations if you can spend your whole life with the person you are in love with. Somehow, whole life, or permanence, is extremely hard to achieve.

There is an old Dutch saying that I like a lot, “A bird in the hand is better than a hundred in flight.” This can best explain and summarize what I am trying to say here =) Good luck to you!

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