"Maybe"

Buddhist stories and parables

One concerns a famer who wakes up to find that his horse has run off.
The neighbours come by and say, “Too bad such awful luck”.
The famer then replied, “Maybe”.
The next day, the horse returns with a few other horses. The neighbours congratulate the farmer on his reversal of fortune.
 “Maybe” was the only words the farmer reply.
When his son tries to ride one of the new horses, he breaks his leg, and the neighbours offer condolences.
“Maybe” the farmer says.
And the next day, when army officials come to draft the son and don’t take him because of his broken leg – everyone is happy.
Then again “Maybe” the farmer says.
I have heard stories like this before. They are beautiful in their simplicity and surrender to the universe. I wonder if I could be attached to something so detached. I don’t know. “Maybe”  

-from a book ‘have a little faith’ by Mitch Albom 

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