A Story

[djpreshit]

One day, the father of a very wealthy family took his son on a trip to
the
country with the
express purpose of showing him how poor people live.

They spent a couple of days and nights on the farm of what would be
considered a very poor family.

On their return from their trip, the father asked his son, "How was the
trip?"

"It was great, Dad."

"Did you see how poor people live?" the father asked.

"Oh yeah," said the son.

"So, tell me, what did you learn from the trip?" asked the father.

The son answered:

"I saw that we have one dog and they had four.

We have a pool that reaches to the middle of our garden and they have a
creek that has no end.

We have imported lanterns in our garden and they have the stars at
night.

Our patio reaches to the front yard and they have the whole horizon.

We have a small piece of land to live on and they have fields that go
beyond
our sight.

We have servants who serve us, but they serve others.

We buy our food, but they grow theirs.

We have walls around our property to protect us, they have friends to
protect them."

The boy's father was speechless.

Then his son added, "Thanks Dad for showing me how poor we are."

Isn't perspective a wonderful thing? Makes you wonder what would happen
if
we all gave thanks for everything we have, instead of worrying about
what we
don't have.

Appreciate every single thing you have, especially your friends!

"Life is too short and friends are too few."

[paul]

Nice to read! Thanks for sharing,

[dollargurrl]

nice touching story

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[kev woodman]

...his father said 'Fair enough son' and took away his Xbox, mobile phone, computer, internet access, clothing, education etc etc.

And then set him to work scratching out a bare existence in the dirt until his son died of a disease, caused by poor diet and dirty water, that would have been easily treatable if he'd only had access to medicines.

Poverty rules yaay.