There are two cities. Sadness is the name of the first city. The name of the second city is Joy.
You have an opportunity to migrate from where you are today to settle in another city. You have an offer of the two cities. You can choose to settle only in one or the other city.
Before you make up your mind, here are some of the characteristics of each city:
In the city of Sadness, everyone there is strikingly rich. They have everything that money could ever buy on earth. However, in this city, everyone is sad, moody, hateful, individualist and intolerant of one another. Life in this city is survival of the fittest as there is competition for every available resource even though there is enough to go round.
In the city of Joy, everyone is stingingly poor. No one has anything that resembles material possession of monetary value. They live from hand to mouth. However, everyone in this city is happy. They are kind to one another. The strong ones among them protect the weak ones. Those who have little, even from the little they have, they share with the poorer ones. They protect one another’s interests and share each other’s burdens.
Now, which of these two cities would you prefer to settle in?
I would choose to settle in Sad city not for monetary gains but to let the people there experience some love and kindness, two of God's key attributes.
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