There was a widower who lived with two curious and intelligent daughters. The girls always did a lot of questions. Some he could answer, some not. Since he intended to offer them the best education, he had the girls go on vacation with a sage who lived on a hill. The wise always answered all questions without hesitation. Impatient with the sage, the girls decided to invent a question that he could not answer. Then one of them came up with a beautiful blue butterfly that she would use to play a trick on the sage.
"What are you going to do?" Asked her sister.
"I'll hide the butterfly in my hands and ask if it's alive or dead." If he says she's dead, I'll open my hands and let her fly. If he says she's alive, I'll squeeze her and crush her. And so any answer the sage gives us will be wrong!
The two girls then went to meet the wise man, who was meditating.
- I have a blue butterfly here. Tell me, wise, is she alive or dead?
Calmly the sage smiled and replied:
- It depends on you. She is in your hands!
Moral of the story: We are responsible for our actions, whether in our professional or personal life. Decisions are in our hands and it is up to us to choose what to do with our lives.
