Let’s stop🚫 and have a think🤦 on this old Zen parable about living in the present moment…the only time🕰️ that really matters!
One day while walking 🚶through the wilderness a man🕴️ stumbled upon a vicious tiger🐅. He ran🕺, but soon came to the edge of a high cliff. Desperate to save himself, he climbed down a vine and dangled over the fatal precipice…
As he hung there, two mice appeared from a hole in the cliff and began gnawing on the vine. Suddenly, he noticed on the vine a plump wild strawberry🍓. He plucked it and popped it in his mouth. It was incredibly delicious, the best strawberry 🍓he ever had!
The strawberry🍓 represents all of the amazing things around us in life. The vine symbolizes the timeline of life (between the cliff = birth; precipice = death). Choose to celebrate the strawberry🍓 (the good things in life), always.Forget the past, don’t worry the future, and live in the present moment. Only by that way can we live happily😁.Reminds me of this Mark Twain quote, “I’ve had many worries in my life, most of which never happened.”😁