Two brothers
A story told by Alfred Adler

Two brothers used to live together. The younger one was married and had children, the older one was unmarried and alone. The two brothers worked together, plowing the field and spreading seeds together. At the time of harvest, they brought in the grain and divided the sheaves into two equal shots, one sheaf for each. When night fell, each of the two brothers lay down by their sheaves to sleep. But the older one could not find rest and said in his heart: "My brother has a family, on the other hand I am alone and without children, and yet I took as many sheaves as he did
He got up, took his sheaves and layered them quietly to his brother's sheaves. Then he lay down again and fell asleep.
That same night, some time later, the younger one woke up. He also had to think of his brother and said in his heart: "My brother is alone and has no children. Who will take care of him in his old days?"
And he got up, took his sheaves and carried them quietly and quietly over to the older man's push.
When day came, the two brothers rose, and how surprised everyone was that their sheaves were the same as the night before. But neither said a word to the other. On the second night, everyone waited a while until they thought the other was sleeping. Then they rose and each took his sheaves to carry them to each other's shoulders. Halfway through, they suddenly met, and everyone realized how well the other meant to him. Then they dropped the sheaves and hugged each other in brotherly love. But God in heaven looked down on them and said: "Holy, holy be this place to me. Here I want to live among people."
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