Plato asked his teacher Socrates, "What is love?" Socrates did not speak, but asked him to go to the wheat field himself to pick the largest and fullest ear of wheat, but there was a prerequisite for picking the wheat, that is, it could only be picked once, and when picking the wheat ear, he could only go forward and could not turn his head back.
Plato came to the wheat field with doubts, and the wheat was ripe, and it looked good at first glance that the wheat was golden and full. Plato began to look for the biggest and best wheat with confidence, but he hesitated all the way and eventually got nothing, and returned empty-handed.
When Plato returned, he was disappointed to tell the teacher that he had nothing, but the teacher smiled and said, "This is love!" ”
Plato seemed to understand something, but it wasn't long before he began to think about "what exactly is marriage?" This time Socrates gave him a task: to go to the forest and find a tree that was best suited for decoration at home and bring it back.
Plato had the experience of the last time, and this time he did not linger in the forest for long, and when he was about to leave the forest, he cut down a tree that looked okay and brought it back, it was neither tall nor majestic, nor was it leafy, it looked particularly ordinary, but it was as good as if a tree had not come.
When Socrates saw this, he nodded and said, "Yes, this is marriage." ”
Plato gradually understood the deep meaning of the teacher's search for wheat and trees. Later, Plato went to ask the teacher, "What is happiness?" Socrates still gave him a task, asking him to go to the sea of flowers to find the most beautiful flower to bring back.
The flower hunting trip was very smooth, and it was not long before Plato really returned with a delicate flower, and he excitedly told the teacher: "This is the most beautiful flower in my eyes, I felt that it was beautiful at the first sight of it, although later I saw a lot of beautiful flowers, but I always felt in my heart that what I was holding in my hand was the most beautiful, so the whole process I felt that I was surrounded by a sense of satisfaction and sweetness." Teacher I know what happiness is! ”
Love, marriage, and happiness, Plato's understanding of these three major propositions of life is highly philosophical. Love is the wheat that can not be found, when you are young, you do not know how to cherish it, you always feel that there is something better in front, and as a result, you look forward and look back and finally want to turn back but it is too late.
And marriage is the tree that looks ordinary but can accompany yourself to the end of the life full of chai rice oil and salt, and in the end, the definition of happiness has always been in yourself, as long as your heart is no longer driven by desire and is satisfied, then everything you have is the happiest.
