Sunday, August 2, 2009

dont let opportunities slip away

In Africa, there is a tribe in which a custom will be practiced to choose the most intell woman to be betrothed to the tribe leader's son - the next successor.
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The custom requires tribe women to go into a big cornfield to pluck the biggest & healthiest-looking corn which will be the item of assessment.

The catch is: They can only move forward & cannot turn back in the cornfield once they decided to forsake corns which they feel are not up to their std, and they can only exercise 1 "plucking" only.

Thus, so many tribe women move on & on, each time seeing a big wonderful corn but hesitated in plucking it down. Yet again, they move on empty-handed in search of the next bigger corn. It can be foretold that many tribe women may emerge out of the cornfield with nothing in their hands.

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