#015 A SON'S WISDOM


One day a very wealthy father took his son on a trip to the country for the sole purpose of showing his son how it was to be poor. They spent a few days and nights on the farm what would be considered a very poor family.

 After they return from the trip, the father asked his son how he liked the trip. "It was great, Dad" the son replied. "Did you see how poor people can be?" The father asked.
"Oh yeah" 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 had four, we have a pool that reaches to the middle of our garden and they have a creek that has no end" And he added: "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"

 Before his father could say anything, he continued: "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 for money, but they serve others with a great pleasure"
"We buy our food, but they grow theirs, we have walls around our property to protect us, they have friends to protect them" The man was speechless. Finally his son said "Thank you for showing me how poor we really are"

 Too many times we forgot what we have and concentrate on what we don't have. What is one person's worthless object is another's prize possession. It is all based on one's perspective.

 Sometimes it takes the perspective of a child to remind us what's important.

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  1. Nicole N18 May 2017 at 00:13

    Hahaha. That's a nice story, actually the son gave his father a big lesson.
    We should think about it too. Material things aren't​ so important, right? 🤔We just have to look around and appreciate family, friends, love, also how beautiful is the nature in order to discover many things we haven't noticed yet. :)

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    1. Anonymous18 May 2017 at 06:46

      Oh yeah, that is undoubtedly the point, plus children do not lie :)

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  2. Unknown20 August 2018 at 22:01

    Many of us only have the vision of getting only material things, and keep acquiring them thinking that they will make us happy. Without any sense we have acted this way our whole life, and we have taught that to our children to follow that wrong thought. We seek happiness emptyly, obtaining objects that never fill the gaps that would occupy the real things that matter, the true things that fill with happiness; Friends, family, nature and memories with them.

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    1. Anonymous12 September 2018 at 17:03

      Interesting point of view, don't forget our souls, the connection with God and being every time better as we grow, walking to the divine and perfect.

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  3. Diana Carolina SW28 September 2018 at 22:30

    It's a good story because the father makes his son to see the reality. The poor and the rich have the same but in different realities. Sometimes we care more about the material
    and we do not see the real things.
    The real happiness is not in material things, is in your way of living with the limitations that each one has.

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  4. Anonymous16 November 2019 at 09:20

    The true of the words, in reality if you can see how the kids seen the world, probably could you understand better the happiness. For a child, not is important the value monetary of the things, it's more important how this things impact in your feeling and emotions. Remember when my daughter told me once phrase that had hard impact in my heart: "Dad, only I want to be happy". Always, ours child know and love the world better than us. We need to learn so much from them.

    Julius

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