HOW POOR WE ARE? <\/p>\n
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.
\nOn their return from their trip, the father asked his son,
\n‘How was the trip?’
\n‘It was great, Dad.’
\n‘Did you see how poor people live?’ the father asked.
\n‘Oh yeah,’ said the son.
\n‘So, tell me, what did you learn from the trip?’ asked the father<\/p>\n
The son answered: Then his son added, ‘Thanks Dad for showing me how poor we are.’<\/strong><\/p>\n Isn’t perspective a wonderful thing? <\/strong> Appreciate every single thing you have, especially your friends!<\/strong><\/p>\n ‘Life is too short and friends are too few.’ <\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" HOW POOR WE ARE? 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 […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[166,2],"class_list":["post-1693","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-forwards","tag-forwards","tag-friends","post-preview"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chiragmehta.info\/chirag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1693","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chiragmehta.info\/chirag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chiragmehta.info\/chirag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chiragmehta.info\/chirag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chiragmehta.info\/chirag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1693"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.chiragmehta.info\/chirag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1693\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1696,"href":"https:\/\/www.chiragmehta.info\/chirag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1693\/revisions\/1696"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chiragmehta.info\/chirag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1693"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chiragmehta.info\/chirag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1693"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chiragmehta.info\/chirag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1693"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\n‘I saw that we have one dog and they had four.
\nWe have a pool that reaches to the middle of our garden and they have a creek that has no end.
\nWe have imported lanterns in our garden and they have the stars at night.
\nOur patio reaches to the front yard and they have the whole horizon.
\nWe have a small piece of land to live on and they have fields that go beyond our sight.
\nWe have servants who serve us, but they serve others.
\nWe buy our food, but they grow theirs.
\nWe have walls around our property to protect us, they have friends to protect them.’
\nThe boy’s father was speechless.<\/em><\/p>\n
\nMakes you wonder what would happen if we all gave thanks for everything we have, instead of worrying about what we don’t have. <\/p>\n