True Story: A Lizard's Tale

[chanbengchin]

@Someone somewhere on the Internet

This is a true story about an event that was literally uncovered in Japan.

In order to renovate a house, someone in Japan tore open a wall. Japanese houses normally have a hollow space between the wooden walls.

When tearing down the wall, he found a lizard stuck there because a nail from outside was hammered into one of its feet. He saw this and felt pity.

At the same time he was curious. When he checked the nail, it turns out that it was nailed 10 years ago when the house was first built.

What happened? The lizard had survived in such a position for 10 years! In a dark wall partition for 10 years without moving, it is impossible and mind boggling. Then he wondered how this lizard survived for 10 years without moving a single step—since its foot was nailed!

So he stopped his work and observed the lizard, what it had been doing, and what and how it has been eating. Later, not knowing from where it came, appeared another lizard, with food in its mouth.

Ahh! He was stunned and at the same time, touched deeply. Another lizard had been feeding the stuck one for the past 10 years …

A story … true? ie it is all a figment of the imagination, an ‘original thought’, or a narration of something that actually happened? perhaps not in exact details but in exact essence. How can we tell? why should I believe such a story?

But maybe that’s all irrelevant. What’s important is the meaning, the message, the moral of the story. Well then is this of love? Even so is the lesson of true? meaning applicable to real life and a reflection of reality? Why should I believe that such is love?

But then it is inconsequential whether I believe this story or not. Whatever good or change it can do to me if I believe do not really matter to me, is not significant, and my life is still just as meaningless.