Life

This is a simple zen story which a read when i was a child.The beauty of zen stories lies their simplicity.They are simple,yet profound.
"A man traveling across a field encountered a tiger. He fled, the tiger after him. Coming to a precipice, he caught hold of the root of a wild vine and swung himself down over the edge. The tiger sniffed at him from above. Trembling, the man looked down to where, far below, another tiger was waiting to eat him. Only the vine sustained him.Two mice, one white and one black, little by little started to gnaw away the vine. The man saw a lucious strawberry near him. Grasping the vine with one hand, he plucked the strawberry with the other. How sweet it tasted!"

I often see two kind of people.First category intuitively know what to do and how to do in all situations.I have met some people like that.I envy them.But rest of us learn life the hard way.We try,we fail,we learn.And that loop never ends.I guess the above story is for people like us,we suffer a lot to get a little.And after some time we may learn to enjoy the suffering itself.