Posted on Friday 25 August 2006
There was a daughter, who asked her mother, "Mom, what is love?".
Her all-knowing mother (who probably thinks her daughter is all grownup now and having a sex drive that could power a small city sleepless for nights) told her,
"Take a handful of sand and hold it."
Her dutiful daughter promptly did what her mother said so.
"My dear daughter, see how the sand escapes from your hand when you gripped it ever so tightly, now it has only what you can only hold."
"But Mum~, if I take it loosely it will still flow away."
"That's right, my dear. Love is like the sand you're holding; You grip it too tightly, it escapes from the pressure. But you grip it tightly, it flows out like an untamed wind."
"That's right, my dear wife," the husband said, as he came out from nowhere and probably eyeing on his wife lustily for long. "But there's more!"
"Oh pray tell, my heady father!" the daughter begged.
"You see, my love. The Hand represents you and the Sand represents the one love. You certainly know yourself, I hope. But how much do you know of the Sand you're holding, I say?"
"I guess I'll be as clueless, Dad."
"You see, there's another thing that you must know in this, and that is Time. Time works like water, flowing into the Sand, drop by drop. It solidifies the sand compactly with the hand. With the correct pressure and the right amount of water, the sand will eventually become hard, concrete stone that withstands even the most severe of storms."
"Now that's what I call Love, my dearest." her mother beamed.
"I get it now, Mom and Dad. It's the same when Jimmy from the next town asked me to hold his little pricky! Over time, it did become hard!"
Dua Pai Lang
-excerpted from a conversation and a walk. Thanks dear, for sharing this. Though not in your version. Ha Ha!





