A mind boggling thought kept racing through my head in my naps.
A story read long time ago popped up.
What would you do if u had a chance to live a live out of the many possibilities?
A girl out of frustration went out for a walk. She was almost tired of her life, especially with her younger sister. Her mother who saw her told her to go out for a walk. Tonight was a very special night that comes only once in a blue moon (literally). She advised her daughter to make the most careful choice when she meet the woman with the rose garden. She has only one choice that will come true and stay with her for the rest of her life. The girl went out and she did see the woman with the roses like what her mother said she would. The woman led the girl to her rose garden. The rose garden was filled with all kinds of roses in every color possible. The woman told the girl to make a choice and pick up a rose, but, not before she chooses them carefully. She further emphasized that she can only take ONE rose out of the many. It will be THE one for her life. The girl thought: What the heck. They're all just a bunch of roses right? They look the same to me. But then, she realised that each individual rose was different in a way. She went up to each one and smelt them.
Every rose came a different possibility for her life. In every rose, she was a doctor, actress, cellist, mother of three etc. She also loses her mother in an accident, illness, her father, her sister in wheel chair. She went through the possible ups and downs through the roses. She saw a few possible lives that she was tempted to pick up, but she kept on going, not wanting to restrict herself with that one single rose. She saw the rose similar to that of the one that her mother took years ago. One of a happy family with a loving husband and 2 daughters. She kept on going and going, then, she came to a rose which had not bloomed open fully yet. In it, she saw a more distant possibility with her younger sister whom she always had problems with. Her hands went towards the rose...
Then, she stopped herself.
The girl told the woman that she didnt want any of the roses. She would prefer to choose and create a possibility herself. The woman was bemused with the girl's decision. But nevertheless, the woman led the girl out of her rose garden. The girl went back to the house, determined to have a proper talk with her younger sister.
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I read this story like a few years ago. Hmm, but strangely, it has come back to me recently and I couldnt really shake it off. It's kinda disturbing my naps. I keep wondering, what if I was the girl? Would I have taken one of the roses or could I really have the courage not to take one and create my own possibility or future? I think I'm still a very COMMON mortal. I am so lazy that I wouldnt mind living my "destined" life since it's all predictable. It's almost a guaranteed kinda thing. I cant resist the temptation. I am too cowardly to take the final step into using my own effort to build my own future. And I am too fickle-minded to make up my choice too ba. Hmm, in that case, maybe the girl was right. Why be stuck with only ONE future and think about what you could have been when you can make your own choices?
What fun is there if you already know what you will become? Hmmm, it's all becoming a sort of comforting words to me.
Anyways, I wouldnt mind taking a trip down to that magical garden of roses. And then, maybe I can decide what I truly want and live for in my present life.
*Smilez*
