Together

Oh how I wish folks worked together more often!  How I wish folks cared more about each other too.  I've been talking here about that the past few days.  Folks dying alone and folks living alone.  It seems to me that together is so much better, which reminds me of this story about cooperation that I have told before.  It's one of those stories that floats around the internet, and I have no idea who wrote it, but I thought I'd share it again.

It's about a man who was taken on a tour of both heaven and hell. In hell he was shown a banquet hall filled with diners seated at a table that was covered with all kinds of delicious food. Each person’s back and left arm were tied to the chair so that bending at the waist was impossible, and the left arm could not move. The right arm was stiffened so that the elbow would not bend. The people at the table could gaze at the delicious spread and they could smell the aroma of the food, but they were starving.

In heaven, the picture was exactly the same – backs and left arms shackled, right arms stiffened – but the diners were feasting and rejoicing, because each diner used his stiffened right arm to feed the person to his or her right. It was a picture of people working together – a picture of cooperation. Working together as a team, we can do so much more!

Think about it. We are not the only ones here.  How wonderful this world would be if we all worked together and cared about of neighbors.