One day, Plato asked his teacher, “What is love? How can I find it?”
The teacher answered, “There’s a large wheat field in front. Walk there without turning back, and take just one leaf. If you can find one leaf that you think is extraordinary, it means you have found love.”
So Plato walked…and not long after that, he came back empty-handed.
The teacher asked him, “Why, you don’t bring any leaf?”
Plato said, “I can only bring just one leaf and when I walked through the wheat field I can’t turn my back. Actually I have found one extraordinary leaf, but I don’t know whether there’s any other leaf more extraordinary, so I didn’t take that leaf. When I walked further, I realized that the leaves I found are not as extraordinary compared to the leaf I’ve found earlier in my walk. In the end, I didn’t take any single leaf.”
Then the teacher told him, “So…that is love.”
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