Poor By Birth, Rich By Nature
By Mahtab Bashir • Jul 29th, 2008 • Category: Misc • 2 CommentsOne day a father of a well-heeled family took his son on a trip to the country-side with the firm purpose of showing his son how poor people can be. Both father and son spent a couple of days and nights on the farm of what would be considered a very poor and underprivileged family.
On their return from the trip, the father asked his son, “how was the trip, my sweetheart”? “It was great dad” came the reply. “Did you see how poor people can be”? The doting father asked. “oh yeah”, the son responded. “So what did you learn from the trip”, asked the father proudly.
The son answered, “I saw that we have one dog and they have four. We have a pool that reaches to the middle of our garden and they have a creek that has no end. We have a swanky chandelier 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 foods, but they grow their own. We have walls around our property to protect us; they have friends to protect them.”
With this the father was speechless. Then his son added, “Thanks dad for showing me how poor we are.”
Too many times we forget what we have and concentrate intensely what we don’t have. What is one person’s worthless object is another man’s prized possession. It is all based upon one’s perspective. Makes you wonder what would happen if we all give thanks for all the bounty we have by the grace of Almighty instead of worrying about wanting more. Take joy in what you have and see the treasure in it as saying goes, “there’s enough for everyone’s need but there’s not enough for everyone’s greed.”
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Very true! Yousuf zahoor sb! And very legitimate concept and idea.
“What is one person’s worthless object is another man’s prized possession”.
Agreed! This is really a perception.
But sir don’t you think this discussion need a little more arguments to be tagged as registered slogan or axiom in the books of registration as accepted docus of intellect.
Please don not mind, and grant me permission to change your name from mehtab bashir to yousuf zahoor since according to this concept as you mentioned above (if I assimilate it as true perspective dictionary of unsolved myth), shall not bother you for a moment at least.
You see bashir logically , in spite of all open horizons of acceptance and belief you would not be able to agree the change in name and still if there is an error of once as a life time opportunity ,change will utilized its within domain i.e transformation, alteration, replacement ,mutation, substitution ,denomination ,modification or any of such words that are utilized in the contest ,mode and method of switching over as new element of requisite identification known as entity and recognition in terms of personality and behavior.
Dear logically this behavior in terms of perception is a mandatory requirement of a system, whether it is a person, palace, or horizon.
Demarcation of entity in terms of name as person, countries as nation, and people as community and premises as places are the essential requirement of system and organization indicating a rationalized, well groomed and organize society.
Under the umbrella of such suites privacy is maintained so to develop the concept of belief and respect in terms of obligation, rules and regulation and premises.
Such obligatory requirements are never based on perspective applications of vision and thoughts but perception based on actual reality which is the real reign of perception.
Perception is an integrated phenomenon of human behavior which provides information by conclusive calculations of assessment, evaluation, interpretation, inference, prediction and conclusion based methodology of coordinated, organized, reality based prediction, defining the information, though not in terms of statistical analysis, but legitimate essence of required criteria for reaction.
Since the phenomenon is based on subjective feel as perception it is always taken in lieu of reality.
Now as per discussion in the contest of litigation and controversy, since perception has defined and detailed mode and passage of interpretation in every individual as essential element of perceiving object and horizon, resultant of feel should not be the subject of discussion as, (what is felt as hot will be felt as hot, by every individual and similarly cold as cold).
However if we start perceiving things in abnormal response, it is always a misnomer and a topic that required attention reflecting a disease as in (diabetes mellitus) and is logically unaccepted.
Dear nature has defined the theme in its own form and format of instinct tendencies.
Every thing has its own horizon and sphere explaining restrictions as separate entity.
Humans differentiated from animals and plant and vice versa.
Living from non livings, subjects from objects, similarly in behaviors, pattern, practices, culture, caste color, cadre, country, and as many as you wish.
Similarly boundaries domains restrictions, obligations requisition, designing are all mandatory essentials of human behavior.
Perception under horizon of such scattered and vast phenomena of nature relies on the theory of assessment and evaluation without exposing the basic of its object to feel by touch as interaction.
Definition of existence in the contest of, contour, texture and composition by only mode as visualization, is known as visual perception ,which can not be perceived as reality since mirage in desert are the representation of same theme of fake reality as perception regards.
GOOD one, Mr. Bashir!