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Articles: Moral Stories | How poor are we??
- Voice
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One day a father and his rich family took his young son on a trip to the country with the firm purpose to show him how poor people can be.They spent a day and a night in the farm of a very poor family.
When they got back from their trip the father asked his son , 'How was the trip?'
Very good, Dad !'
'Did you see how poor people can be?' the father asked.
'Yeah!'
'And what did you learn?'
The son answered,'I saw that we have a dog at home, and they have four. We have a pool that reaches to the middle of the garden, they have a creek that has no end. We have imported lamps in the garden they have the stars. Our patio reaches to the front yard, they have a whole horizon.'
When the little boy was finishing, his father was speechless.
His son added,'Thanks, Dad, for showing me how poor we are!'
Isn't it true that it all depends on the way you look at things? If you have love, friends, family, health, good humor and a positive attitude towards life, you've got everything!
You can't buy any of these things. You can have all the material
possessions you can imagine, provisions for the future, etc., but if you are poor of spirit, you have nothing!
Take notice-
When you understand how something works, that understanding enables you to exercise control over how it goes. Take notice of what's going on with your own responses and you put yourself in a position to take full and powerful control of them. Step back and watch objectively as you get angry, or become hungry for a snack, or are tempted to follow some course that is not in your best interest. Really take notice and you will see that there is a clear and observable separation between your response and the things to which you're responding. There is no direct, hard-wired connection between what happens to you and what you do about it. That connection is always, at some level, under your control.
Realize that nothing automatically makes you angry, or envious, or despairing. These are simply ways that you choose to respond, and they are completely under your control. Watch carefully and you'll see that nothing automatically makes you eat a bowl of ice cream, nothing automatically makes you say something spiteful. Even when the response has become such a habit that it seems automatic, it is, in reality, still a choice that you can control.
Observe yourself as you respond to the ups and downs of life,and
you'll see the enormous amount of control you have over the direction your life goes. The more responsible and intentional you become with that control, the more empowered you'll be to go exactly where you want to go.
-- Ralph Marston
best wishes,
Voice.
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