A better world and orange juice

One day, the teacher looked around and saw a boy of about twelve years old, he brought an orange in her hand. The teacher looked him in the eyes and asked him to give him the orange, to which the young agreed. The teacher said:

– If I squeeze this orange with all my strength,what come out of it?

The youth replied

– Juice, of course.

The teacher insisted

– You will have apple juice?

The young man looked astonished and shook his head.

– Grape juice? – Insisted the teacher.

– No! – Replied the boy, thinking he was taking for a fool, rather angry.

– So, what will?

– Orange juice, of course. – Replied the young man, exasperated.

– Why? Why orange juice?

– Because is an orange and orange juice is what’s inside. – Concluded the young.

Then the teacher told

– Suppose that there is not an orange, suppose is you. If someone assaults you, speak bad about you, bothers you, press you, and you comes anger, rage, hatred, poisoned, feared, is because that is what is inside you. What comes out of us when the world offends or attacks us? If you get hate, is because within you there is nothing but hate and pain.

No matter who attack us, you can be our parents, our boss, the government, even nature, a loved one. If when we are attacked or wronged react with another feeling that is not love, it is because we have allowed it to grow into. We can not react with hatred if we have not hatred inside. We can not react with violence, if we have not violence inside us previously.

Now, the choice is ours. We have the power and consciousness enough to replace our hatred, rage, anger, by love, compassion, kindness, forgiveness. Feelings that transform the world into a better place, not only for others but for ourselves. When we replace these harmful feelings by those other benign, we will have a better life and do a little better the lives of others.

You must be rich?

I was thinking about what a visitor of this blog wrote some days ago, who pointed out that in fact the true wealth was in the feelings, on the good things inthe relationship of people and not in money. He said more or less literally that …. I think the greatest wealth a person can achieve in his life is empathy, trust, love, friendship, patience, understanding, all that is the true human wealth. However much money will not make you happier, instead, can yes to be the most unhappy man on earth…..

A lot of others blog visitors replied, very sparingly, to what would happen if a family member need emergency surgery costing $ 40,000 and not have them … Needless to say, the violence of the situation, and since they are real things that happen every day, no need to exaggerate the point. We have all seen cases like that.

Of course, pretty words are very poetic and very pleasant to listen, but faced with the reality of our world today, it is impossible not to see the need for money, to dispose of property. Anyone can get in the place of people who are not served with the technology that would be needed to save their lives, simply for lack of money or property to be transformed into money.

It is at that point where all the romanticism disappear and one is desperate, even regret of his luck and god, facing the impossibility and frustration that this generates.

Therefore it is necessary to be rich, have lots of money, that money is not just a problem in our lives. If we have enough and more than enough, then the poem may actually be a poem, dreams may be dreams, and nothing will be stained the color of need. There actually may be true the words of this person’s greatest wealth are the feelings. When you have the money resolved, obviously.