I can never ever forget this wonderful story. I wanted to share it to all of you.. so here it is...
Happiest Man in the world
One day, a father of a very wealthy family took his son on a trip to the province here in the Philippines with the purpose of showing his son how poor people can be. They spent a couple of days and nights on the farm of what would be considered a very poor family.
On their return from the their trip, the father asked his son, "How was the trip?"
"It was great, Dad."
"Did you see how poor people can be?" his father asked.
"Oh yes," said the son.
"So what did you learn from the trip?" Asked the father.
The son answered, I saw that we have one dog and they have four. We have a pool that reaches 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 the 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."
With this, the boy's father was speechless. Then his son added, " Thanks, Dad, for showing me how poor we are."
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Many times, people forget what they have and thus fail to appreciate these because they concentrate so much on things that they do not have. Sometimes, they feel that they are deprived just because they see others to have so much. Or, they feel superior over the rest because they seem to have more than the others.
It is all a matter of perspective, of how they look at things -- just like how the young son in the story learned to look at life from a beautiful perspective.
Nice one.. well said
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