Ria Slides

There was a man who lived with his two daughters who were very curious and smart. The kids were always asking many questions. He only knew how to answer some of them. As he tried to offer them the best education, he sent them on vacations with a wise man who lived on a big mountain.

The wise man always answered all questions without any doubt. Being impatient with the wise man, the girls decided to invent a question that was impossible to answer. Then, one of them appeared with a beautiful blue butterfly that she would use to trick the wise man.

“What are you going to do?” –asked her sister. “I’m going to hide the butterfly in my hands and I’ll ask the wise man if it is alive or dead.” “If he says it is dead, I’ll open my hands and I’ll let it fly. If he says that it is alive, I ‘ll squeeze it. And then, regardless of his answer, it will be wrong!”

Then the two kids were to meet the wise man, who was in meditation. - “I’ve here a blue butterfly. Tell me, wise man, is it alive or dead?” Very quietly the wise man smiled and responded: “It depends on you... It’s fate is in your hands.”