Which One Will Octopus Paul Choose?

Nov 11
09:41

2010

Talina Tang

Talina Tang

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This article will tell the readers a kind of life wisdom. It is inpired by the hot issue about the Octopus Paul during the 2010 South Africa World Cup.

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People who are fans of football may have deep impression on the Octopus called Paul during the 2010 South Africa World Cup. His magical capability of forecasting caught the great attention of the fans as well as the media within short time. Stephan,Which One Will Octopus Paul Choose? Articles the manager of the aquarium Paul lives in once said, "the success of Paul made himself much more legendary than the World Cup." This little creature is so popular that it became the topic of almost every football fan. There are the news and comments about Paul everywhere on the website. It is no exaggeration to say that Octopus Paul has created a new kind of fashion.

However, after months of silence, the first news about Paul shocked everybody. It is reported that Paul left the German aquarium forever on Oct.26. It means that the South Africa World Cup final was the last forecast in Paul's life. Soon after the news was released, Agence France Presse, Associated Press and New York Times so on and so forth reported it immediately and Paul becomes the focus of the society again. It seems to bring the memory of that passionate and crazy summer back to us again.

Looking back to Paul's whole life, it is short but gorgeous, just like the meteor streaking the dark sky. Paul started his career life in 2008 and forecast totally 14 games.What is amazing is that 13 of the forecasts were correct. During the South Africa World Cup, the 8 games Paul forecast are also correct. It is definitely a miracle to have so high a rate of success.

Paul's fantastic ability of forecasting also caused people's interests to research into the reasons why he can be so accurate. The most popular and scientific saying is that it is the color that matters. Just take Germany for example. The national flag of Germany contains three colors: black, red and blue. These three colors are Paul's favorite because his favorite food is also in these colors. It is no wonder that Paul will always choose Germany as the winner in the forecast.

This hot Paul thing makes me to think about the many choices we have to make in our life. We have to decide which university we will attend; we have to choose what kind of job we want to take; we have to pick out the appropriate house we would like to live in... Yes, there are always the crosses we will encounter in every stage during the life time. And sometimes it is so hard to make the final decision from all these alternatives that we would rather there are no choices at all.

However, life will keep going on. If these choices are inevitable, can we just make it as simple as Octopus Paul? What we need to do is just to select out the right one according to some particular property we like, but not to take these complicated factors into consideration. I think that's a wonderful state where everyone will dream of.

Some days ago, Christina, a friend of mine called me and she told me that she was facing a difficult problem when choosing her laptop in a supermarket.

There were two different ones, both of which had their own stand-out characteristics and she was at a lost which one she should choose. One of them was from a famous brand and the comprehensive functions were perfect. What's more, she liked the outlook of it. The problems lied in that it was too expensive. The other one was much cheaper and she also liked its style, and it seemed to have good working capability as well. However, the producer of this cheaper one was from a not-so-famous one.

Now, you can see how hard it is to choose from these two laptops since each one was a good choice for her. As a result, she asked me for help to give her some suggestions. Actually, I am also a person who hates making choices. You know what I am thinking now? Just to have the Octopus Paul to help her pick out the one.

In the end, I still did not give Christina the advice which laptop should be the better one for her. Later, she called me again, and I can even hear her excitement in her voice.

She told me that finally she gave up making the hard choice and just went home. Then the magical thing happened. I know that she has the experience to buy shoes which she likes but can not afford in on-line stores. She would firstly try on the right size and then search the same one on Internet which usually will be cheaper. Usually the result is to her satisfaction. So, this time she just applied the same method to take her chance.

To her amazement, she found a fantastic on-line shop ( http://www.dinodirect.com/laptops/ ) which provides all kinds of PC. She ended her hard choosing by ordering a laptop that met her requirement in every aspect. I think it is lucky for her to find this on-line shop as her right Octopus Paul.