" Sometimes it only takes one person to hold your hand to remind you that everything is going to be okay"

 One  day a very wealthy father took his son on a trip to the country for the  sole purpose of showing his son how it was to be poor. They spent a few  days and nights on the farm of what would be considered a very poor  family.

After their return from the trip, the father asked his son  how he liked the trip. “It was great, Dad,” the son replied. “Did you  see how poor people can be?” the father asked. “Oh Yeah,” said the son.
“So  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, “It showed me just  how poor we really are.”
Too many times we forget what we have and  concentrate on what we don’t have. What is one person’s worthless object  is another’s prize possession. It is all based on one’s perspective.
Sometimes it takes the perspective of a child to remind us what’s important.