Whatever you do in the future will be nothing more than a continuation of the past. You can change it a little - patch it up here and there, but the main part of it will remain the same.
Someone asked Mulla Nasrudin when he was on his deathbed:
- If you were given life again, how would you live it, Nasreddin? Would you like to change anything?
Nasreddin closed his eyes in thought, in meditation, then opened them again and said:
- Yes, if they gave me life again, I would comb my hair in the middle. I always wanted this, but my father always insisted that I not do it. And when my father died, my hair got so used to it that I could no longer comb it in the middle.
If you were asked what you would do in your new life, you would make small changes like this. A husband with a slightly different nose, a wife with a slightly different complexion, a larger or smaller house - but this is nothing more than a “parting in the middle”, trifles, insignificant. Essentially your life remains the same.
Translated from Russian · original on wisdomlib.ru