One day, a father of a very wealthy family took his son on a trip to the country with the firm purpose of showing his son 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 return from their trip, the father asked his son, “How was the trip?”
“It was great, Dad.”
“Did you see how poor people live?” the father asked.
“Oh yeah,” said the son.
“So, tell me, 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. 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 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.”
The boy’s father was speechless.
Then his son added, “Thanks, Dad, for showing me how poor we are.”
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This was so funny especially the end.
I hope this is a real truth of our life, till we are lacking of love of others we are remain poor only.., how much money we may have.., I believe a person who live his life in scarce resources happily is a true achiever in his live..,
Thanks for such a good message
This was a nice story, i am angry with samantha for saying this story as funny..
It’s so inspiring.
I also want to visit my village. I am also speechless
This is a very good story and this is also a real story which the owner of ford tried this with her granddaughter.
I hate this story..while the observation was reasonable, the boy failed to get the real message of the trip!
KUL STRY (^^^)
This is an excellent creation. Not just looking at one side but both sides of the same coin.
We must learn the real message behind it…..
A really touchy one ….:(
Richness or poverty is on the eye of the beholder. I always think i’m rich… atleast in the heart. Thanks God!
William Wordsworth saw it right…
Child is the father of man ! This story proves it…
A good one indeed !!!
It’s nice. I have heard it before but u reminded me of it.
Thx for reminding
it is a good and meaningful story
thnx for a very wonderful story.. it shows that not all rich people are rich enough.
thanx for reminding us what we are !
very nice……….i m spechless
THANKS FOR OPENING MY EYES
We think that giving material things is what make our children happy but all children really want is to be free run with the chickens and run there feet in the stream and eat an apple off the tree and read them a story for bed thats being rich and happy.
What a great story infact all the boy told was so true.
It is really good & Touchy story,
thank for this inspirational creation
its very deep thought which can be dig into artificial hearts.
It is an amazing story..
really motivating story i like it
Thanks for sharing this story with us…
Really awsme…… it has a gr8 meaning…worth story….
nice story! so inspiring
heheheheh that was funny, really funny, the boy is smart…
The poor have the piece of mind and the free will to live. The opposite is for the rich, who are enclosed, en-caged, etc
Nice story
Very effective story, able to be appreciated.
This pierce teaches me how we ppl like to limit ourselves. God gave us the world to live at, we created borders, visa, passports, all these are limitations. THE TIME OF PASSWORD… The will come where a password will be required to enter a church, and we call it advance, I call it limitation…
Amazing story!!!
I don’t know who aurhored this story. Whoever it may be, I hats off to him or her for such a beautiful and meaning ful story. It’s the story which really gives the message about many things like, postive attitude, open mindedness, etc.
Once again congratualations for a master piece.
Dr.Prashanth Naik, Mangaloare.
Haha! Clever boy!
nice story very inspirable..
fantastic story….
awesome story i liked it so much especially the perception of boy to identify the things positively who made his father speechless………….wonderful story thank to its author
Material things didn’t matter in life……………FAMILY, FRIENDS are the people that matters in life
It is something that every rich people must read
This was a wonderful story which gives a good message.some peoples says this story awesome,fantastic, amazing etc. But i don’t think they take the moral of this story in their practical life!!!
Fantastic story, really give message to us, that money is not everything, beyond money we also need people in our life for love , relationship & help when need.
Nice story. A different prospective to the see the world. It’s our choice how we see the world around us. lets see it in a positive way.
“The mind is its own place, and in itself can make a paradise from adversity , or create a prison from blessing.”
-JOHN MILTON-
Superb thought…. truely a vision twister.
Nice story……….very inspirable……..(:-)
The same story I had last year in my moral book . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . but it is one of my favorite stories
It is a good story for me. Now I saw that… what is the different between poor and… rich..
If u r happy with all you got, then your poorness or richness doesn’t matter.
Nice
It’s a very good and reasonable story.
Excellent story
This story is very nice. I like it….. this story is not funny, this helps us to understand how the poor lives.
Nice message
Really disgusting story that tells one of the biggest lies imaginable, that poor people’s lives aren’t that hard. You should be ashamed of yourself for posting this dishonest and completely asinine story. Non-poor people love it because it claims poor people ‘s lives are just like ours, and thus absolves them of any responsibility to help.
In fact this is a touching story. This story completely goes in line with my way of thinking. I really love such stories.
I reed many stories after this one trying to find the perfect one for a presentation and only to realized that i have come rite back to how the poor live. This message is such an inspirational and funny one because whats one treasure is, is a next one live and what is someone live is someone treasure. It’s funny because it goes to show happiness is not all in money and i sure when one fines the story funny is not, ‘literally.’
A really nice story, inspiring one… keep it up!
THAT… was awesome. I’m going to use it in my story telling programme to the kids.
Really, really heart touching, inspiring, and motivational. Hope to see more stories coming up
Really awesome and inspiring good story.
What a nice message. Thanx for making us see the worth of what we are and have. Very interesting!
Lovely… keep passing the message.
It is a lovely story.
Samanta, are you on drugs? Learn not to spoil the mood of people who have a heart for a good story. Apart from that, money can’t buy the treasures of life.
I liked this story very much …..IT IS VERY NICE*********I’M SPEECHLESS
There are some people who are very poor that the only thing they have is money.
Really touching story. I liked a lot.
Great God! I am speechless, n heart touching. It is a really nice story. The rich do know how the poor live, but………. Hope to see the more stories coming up! Thanks!! Hope the best for u guys!
It is a very heart touching and inspirational story. Money is not a every thing in life.
Really, really heart touching, inspiring, and motivational and thanks for sharing!!!
Life is what we look at it like.
A very heart touching and an inspiring story.
It also teaches us to be positive…
What a story …. simple one but meaning was great .. rich and poor in heart not in money …
One of the best stories I have ever heard….!!!
This is our finance which calls a person poor or wealthy but the fact is something else, for recognizing human use your eyes and heart, both of them.
It’s nice story.
awesome story………………….
I just luv it…………………………………….
kep on writing dear……..
this story shows the actual side of the richer ones.
Its very Important & heart touching & learn about life
It’s a really heart touching Story…. I like it… it’s a very innocent story you can say.
The boy is innocent but he cannot know the exact meaning of poverty.
True story, the reality, super like…
Nice one
Very nice story…:)
Nice story !
and inspiring ♥
It really touches my heart.
It is a very interesting web site.
It was so inspiring.. Loved reading it.. Really a heart touching one..
Nice story
Asalam walaikum! {Hi} I am a kid, age 11, I am not in my country ( India ) now, I am thinking that if I will be in India so I will sure serve poor & needy people if I will see them I think that I will give them money, give food, clothes like this I am thinking, and when I am thinking about poors will sure cry ….. But overall talking about the story is very nice, awesome, excellent and superb.
Why can’t you have a “love” button, so we could press it thousands of times.
THANKS Devansh!!!
It is indeed happy to gratitude to the writter for inovating and bringing out with a beautiful melody how proletariat people shelter and survive … to be opine its really melting my hearts and from d view of this story what hurts me is that people who r all from d rich family are looking down upon the poor which making obscen to the creature of god.
I think it is heart touching…really it’s awesome…..
I am speechless!
It’s really great.
The paradox of being rich: being rich is not so much on the acquisition of wealth but living the most simplest and natural life.
Highly commendable, please keep this feri burning God bless you.