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life is to be whole(quote written by hand)
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Onec a circle missed a wedge. The circle wanted to be whole.And it went around looking for a missing piece.And because it was incomplete and therefore could roll only very slowly.It admired the flower along the way. It chatted with worms.It enjoyed the sunshine.And it found lots of different pieces,but none of them fit.It left them all by the side of the road and kept on searching. And then one day it found a piece that fit perfectly.It was so happy.Now it could be whole, with nothing missing.It incorporated the missing piece into itself and began to roll.Now that it is perfect circle.It could roll very fast. Too fast to notice the flower and to talk to the worm.When it realized how difference the world seeemedwhen it rolled so quickly.It stopped,left its found piece by the side of the road and rolled slowly away.
The lesson of the story, I suggested,was that in some strange sense we are more whole when we are missing something.The man who has every thing is in some ways a poor man.He will never know what it feels like to yearn to hope and to nourish his soul with dearm of something better.He will never know the experience of having someone who loves him give him something he has always wanted or never had
There is a wholeness about person who has come to terms to his limitation, who has been brave enough to let go of his unrealistic dearm and not feels like a failour for doing so.There is a wholeness about man and woman who has learned that he or she is strong enough to go through a tragedy and survive,who can lost someone and still feel like a complete person.
Life is not a trap set for ue by God so that he can condemn us for failing.Life is not spelling bee, where no matter how many word you have gotten right,you are disqualified,if you make a mistake.Life is more like a baseball season,where even the beat team lose one-third of its games and the worst team has its days of brilliance.Our goal is to win more games than we lose.
When we accept the imperfection is part of being humen.When we can continue rolling through life and appreciate it.We will have achieved a wholeness that others can only apire to.That,I believe, was what God asks of us, not 'be perfect',not'don't even make a mistake',but'be whole'.
If you are brave enough to love,strong enough to forgive,general enough to rejoice another's happiness,and wise enough to know there is enough love to go around for us all,then we can achieve a fullfillment that no other living creature will ever know.
Post comment Comment (19 replies)
- Reply Go_ES
- swan_amy: wow~ love love love it ~I try to improve my English by means of memorise some good article.This is the first one!
- Reply swan_amy
- Go_ES: I try to improve my English by means of memorise some good article.This is the first one!keep it ~ it's soooooo good~
- Reply wang_baron
- Sometimes, it's necessary for us to give up somethings.
- Reply Go_ES
- wang_baron: Sometimes, it's necessary for us to give up somethings.YES~TO give up something we don't need ,give up something bad for us.
- Reply Go_ES
- zhou: "Comic Sans MS" I like the font of your passage.and thank you for your share.
My pleasure
- Reply Even。
- Go_ES: I try to improve my English by means of memorise some good article.This is the first one!Wow~You had done a good job. Consistency is the key. Carryon~
- Reply byrongao102
- i love the last sentence
If you are brave enough to love,strong enough to forgive,general enough to rejoice another's happiness,and wise enough to know there is enough love to go around for us all,then we can achieve a fullfillment that no other living creature will ever know.
- Reply Go_ES
- byrongao102: i love the last sentence
If you are brave enough to love,strong enough to forgive,general enough to rejoice another's happiness,and wise enough to knme too
- Reply Fionahere
- i've known the story but this is the first time i read this interpretaion of it. i like it~~as for me, the process or the journey to be "whole" or perfect is the crucial part in our life. when we finally make it, we are not as excited as when we were striving for it along the way~~
- Reply Go_ES
- Fionahere: i've known the story but this is the first time i read this interpretaion of it. i like it~~as for me, the process or the journey to be "whole&quMaybe to enjoy the procession is what we are really fighting for.Sometimes when we get the end.It is just ruined it by ending.
- Reply Fionahere
- Go_ES: Maybe to enjoy the procession is what we are really fighting for.Sometimes when we get the end.It is just ruined it by ending.you can say that,, but the ending is also what we desperately want at the very beginning huh~~~
