Parables have their purpose. Sometimes you are reminded of it when faced with a certain situation in life. When we are forced to make some tough choices.
There is one that particularly comes to mind at this stage. The parable of the wolf with the chunk of meat in his mouth. He walks along the bridge and happens to gaze at his reflection on the water. Being the animal that he is, he is not aware that it is only a reflection. What he focused on is that there's this other wolf with a bigger piece than the meat he currently carries in his mouth.
Well, since this is a parable, the writer is free to incorporate a human nature on the part of the beast. The nature of greed and/or dissatisfaction. So what happens next is that the wolf realizes that there is another animal like him with a bigger meat in its mouth so he suddenly lets go of the what he got in between his teeth and jumped through his reflection on the water. And as he splashed on the raging river lost the piece of meat he has to the strong current..
That story puts a pretty strong premium on how greed often makes us lose more than what we had hoped for. And that not appreciating what we have while it's within our grasp results in undesirable consequences.
So now how do I face this situation? Do I need to be reminded of that parable or am I after all really looking at the real possibilities of what life can be? for me, for now and in the future?
This is my dilemma.
