A Person Can Be Rich By Heart

A Person Can Be Rich By Heart

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Someone asked an affluent man, “Is there anyone richer than you in the world ?”

The man replied, “Yes, there is a person who is richer than I.”

He then narrated an anecdote.

“It was during the time when I was an ordinary man not rich at all. I was at the New York Airport lounge where I saw a newspaper vendor. I wanted to NYT but found that I didn’t have enough change. So I left the idea of buying and LEFT the paper back on tray of the vendor.

“I told him of not having the change. The vendor said, ‘I am giving you this for free.’ On his insistence I took the newspaper.

Coincidentally, after two to three months, I landed at the same airport lounge and again I was short of change for a newspaper. The vendor offered me the newspaper free again. I refused and said that I can’t take it for I don’t have change today too. He said, ‘You can take it, I am sharing this from my profit, I won’t be at loss.’
I took the newspaper.

“Nearly after twenty years I became rich and known to people. Suddenly I remembered that boy vendor. I began searching for him and after about 1½ months of searching, I found him as a man. I asked him, ‘Do you know me?’ He said, ‘Yes.’

“I asked him again, ‘Do you remember once you gave me a newspaper for free?’

“The vendor said, ‘Yes, I remember. I gave you twice.’

“I said, ‘I want to repay the help you had offered me that time. Whatever you want in your life, tell me, I shall fulfill it.’

“The vendor said, ‘Sir, don’t you think that by doing so you won’t be able to match my help?’
I asked, ‘Why?’

He said, ‘I had helped you when I was a poor boy as newspaper vendor and you are trying to help me now, when you have become the rich. How can your help match mine?’

That day I realized that the newspaper vendor is richer than I am, because he didn’t wait to become rich to help someone.

People need to understand that the truly rich are those who possess a rich heart rather than lots of money.

It’s very important to have a rich-heart.

 

A very rich person doing no noble deeds might be a unwelcome news but a grand old govt pensioner lady teacher from karnataka donated her entire savings to national disaster fund is unprecedented.

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