Once, a father from a wealthy family took his son on a field trip, with the firm intention that he saw how poor the people of the countryside were and that he understood the value of things and how fortunate they were.
They were there for a full day and night on the farm of a very humble peasant family.
At the end of the trip and back home the father asks his son: "What did you think of the trip?"
"Very good dad!" Replied the son.
"Did you see how poor and needy people can be?" His father insisted.
. "Yes," said the son.
"And what did you learn?" The parent questioned.
"I saw that we have a dog at home, and they have four. We have a 25-meter pool, they have a stream that has no end. We have imported lamps in the yard, they have thousands of stars. Our yard reaches the limit of the house, theirs has the whole horizon. Especially, I saw that they have time to talk and live together as a family. Mom and you have to work all the time and I almost never see them. "
The father was speechless. And his son added: "Thank you, Dad, for teaching me how rich we could be."
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The moral of this story that is very easy to see, is about what we give more value to, if we give more value to visible goods, material goods, such as money, the house, etc., or if we give it more value to the invisible goods, because there are such goods, and there are those who do not even know that they exist or just hear about them, goods such as happiness, time, tranquility, good, etc.
The story does not try to belittle material goods, because they certainly have some value, just try to give the right order to things and place as superior what really goes in first place. Because it is truly intangible goods that have primacy in terms of value, being precisely that all wealth, all money, and all material goods, tend to try to get us to get those invisible goods such as happiness, time, or tranquility.
So, if you have only these invisible goods, lest this be considered less one, because you get the essence of wealth at once without the need for material goods. In other words, wealth is something accessory or complementary while happiness is not, and if you have the latter, it is enough to be called rich, not of matter and money, but of something much more important.
Finally, it also makes a contrast between what is naturally given to the human, such as the stream, the stars, nature, and an endless other things, and human creations susceptible to corruption and theft such as the house, the pool, etc., that it has no other object than to show us how naturally prodigious and rich the human is by being part of nature and not as a divided entity.
But tell me your; What do you give more value to?
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