Once upon a time, there was a teacher and his student lying down under a big grass area. Suddenly, the student asked the teacher, “Teacher, I wonder 1 I can find my soul mate（灵魂伴侣）? Can you please tell me?”
2 for a second, then the teacher answered, “Well, it's a pretty hard and easy question.”
The student 3 hard.
The teacher continued, “Look that way, there is a lot of grass there. You just walk there but please 4 walk backwards(向后地), just walk straight ahead. On your 5, try to find a beautiful grass and pick it up and then give it to me. But just one.”
The student replied, “OK ，wait for 6.” Then he walked straight ahead to the grass field.
A few minutes later the student came back.
The teacher said, “Um, I don't see any beautiful 7 on your hand.”
The student explained, “On my journey, I 8 a few beautiful grass, but I thought that I would find a 9one, so I didn't pick it up. But I didn't realize that I was at the 10of the field, and I hadn't picked up any 11you told me not to go back so I didn't go back.”
“That's what happened in 12life,” the teacher told the student.
What is the message of this story?
Grass is people 13 you. Beautiful Grass is people that draw your attention. Grass field is time.
In looking for your soul mate or your right job, please don't always 14and hope that there will be a better one. By doing that, you'll 15 your lifetime ,because “Time Never Goes Back.” So the moral (寓意)of the story is LOVE & take the chance that you have now! Treasure it, don't wait until you lose it.
