positive sides of life

Hello all,

There was a boy, whose family was very wealthy. One day his father took him on a trip to the 

country, where he aimed to show his son, how poor people live. So they arrived to a farm of a 

very poor family, as he considered. They spent there several days. On their return, the father 

asked his son, did he like the trip.

“Oh, it was great, dad” – the boy replied. “Did you notice how poor people live?” Yeah, I did- said the boy. The father asked his son to tell in more details about his impressions from their trip.


“Well, we have only one dog, and they have four of them. In our garden there is a pool, while 

they have a river that has no end. We've got expensive lanterns, but they have stars above their 

heads at night. We have the patio, and they have the whole horizon. We have only a small piece 

of land, while they have the endless fields. We buy food, but they grow it. We have high fence 

for protection of our property, and they don‘t need it, as their friends protect them.”

The father was stunned. He could not say a word.

The boy taught a very important lesson to his father that day; the way of looking at the positive sides of life, positive sides of a difficult situation and taking on things in a different way.