Habit

In life we always keep searching for something better and most of the time we didn't realize we already found what we are looking for, or we simply do not need the best but needed what completes us.

I remember a story I heard long ago. A man was told a priceless stone is among thousands of stones near the beach, what he needs to do is to pick up the stone one by one, the difference of the precious stone is it is warm when he holds it, the rest are all cold as ice. So he starts picking his stones day by day, he picks, feels, the colds will then throw to the sea.

1st one...cold, 2nd...cold, 3rd...cold, 4th..cold, 5th...6...10...50...100...The next day 1...2...7...30...50...100...The third day 1...5...10...40...70...100...Everyday he will make it a habit to pick 100 stones.Day by day, month by month, 100...300...500...1000...2000...He believes he will surely find it someday. One afternoon, he stopped at 3065 stones and started crying...because he just thrown away a warm stone at count of 3064.

He believes he will find it but what he didn't realized was that 'pick & throw' became his habit. Sometimes habit make us lost what we suppose to have, make us neglected to stop and think of what are we holding in hand.