One woman had four children. The nanny sat with them until five o'clock in the evening. One day she said to her mistress:
- Do you know what your eldest son said today? That we are all sleeping, and will wake up only after death.
He was then five or six years old. “There’s something wrong here,” the mother thought.
Drying her son with a towel after an evening swim, she asked:
- What did you talk about with the nanny?
“What didn’t we talk about,” the boy answered.
“About sleep and awakening,” the mother reminded.
- Oh, yes. “I told her that we are all sleeping, and we will wake up only after death,” he repeated word for word.
- Who told you this? - asked the mother.
The son looked at her with such reproach, his gaze expressed such regret that his mother was asking such a stupid question, but he still answered:
- God, who else?
Translated from Russian · original on wisdomlib.ru