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Choosing oranges
It’s the fruits aisle. You see people crowding around the fruits on display. In the oranges section, an expert hand dips in and out of the rows of oranges. To me, all the oranges look more or less the same. But somehow, the expert hand tries to look for the differences.
Everyone who’s crowding around the boxes of oranges seem to know which are the better oranges. Everyone seems to be an expert. The confidence in picking up an orange and deciding whether that particular one will be a good one seems so innate, that no one will fault the person even if she picked a lousy one. The fault will lie with the grocer.
If only this confidence can be translated to when we’re picking up shoes, or clothes or in choosing the things that really matter in life. Sometimes, the choice can be so obvious, like choosing oranges, that we fail to pick up on it.
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Hi Shang Lee,
I’m enjoying your site, and especially your posts on t’ai chi… but I liked this post a lot too. My wife is such an expert at picking out oranges and apples and especially watermelon. She’s very sure about which are the good ones. Me, not so much…
Regards