Do you think God will give me that boat if I prayed long enough?
This was what the unfortunate man said when I approached him with the intention of offering him my leftover pizza from lunch. My heart broke a little after hearing what he said.

"Would you like some pizza?" I asked. He told me he didn't want to impose nor did he want to take anything that I was going to have for myself. I should point out that I live by the water and there were many boats docked by the harbour and he pointed at the largest and prettiest one.

He accepted my pizza and I walked on, but I didn't get very far until I decided to turn back. He had an effect on me. Perhaps it was because he was very polite, or maybe it was because he didn't ask for anything, whatever it was, I turned back to speak with him. He briefly shared his life story with me and my heart broke a little more. Life works in funny ways, not that I had forgotten to be thankful for my life, but I think I had grown a little tired and exhausted with many things.

I digress.

This unfortunate man, in my opinion, was to himself a fortunate man. His perspective on life is not something that I regularely contempt. To me, he was a man who was expecting his first child with his wife when he suffered an aneurysm at work. Though he has no recollection of what had happened, the incident had left him in a coma, which he, luckily, recovered from after a week. He was unable to return to work afterwards, and his wife left him shortly after their daughter was born. His wife remarried, asked him to sign a piece of paper, took their daughter to the states and he had not seen his daughter since. That was 5 years ago...

To me, that's a devastating story, but to him, in spite of what had happened, he is thankful that he's alive today, he was able to see the birth of his daugther and that with hard work, he will see his daughter again.

I left out many details as to not bore you, but really, what's more important in life, to be rich in spirit or to be rich in assets? I probably am not making much sense...but I was impacted by my meeting with this person and his story deserves to be documented (even in this small way)...