We'll see

This evening, Ida and I sat in watching Charlie Wilson's War; a film which I feel deserves a place in anyone's DVD collection. Even through a rose tinted Hollywood lense, it does go some way to explaining the situation in Afghanistan and how there came to be a war there. At the end of the film, the character of Gust (played by Phillip Seymour Hoffman), relates this story; I think it's worth consideration:

The was a boy who lived in a village, and for his fourteenth birthday he received a present of a horse. Everyone said "How wonderful!" The Zen Master said "We'll see."

Two years later he fell off the horse and broke his leg. Everyone said "How terrible!" The Zen Master said, "We'll see."

Then a war broke out, and all of the young men of the village had to go off to fight; except the boy who could not fight because of his leg. Everyone said "How wonderful!" The Zen Master said, "We'll see..."