83. Nasruddin Eating Eggs
Nasruddin was sitting in a chair outside, eating eggs for dinner. He didn’t usually eat dinner outside, and eggs were not his usual dinner, but so it was: Nasruddin was sitting in a chair outside, eating eggs for dinner.
One of Nasruddin’s neighbors happened to walk by, and he just couldn’t keep quiet. “Hey there, Nasruddin,” he said, “why are you sitting in your chair eating eggs like that?”
Nasruddin looked up and replied, “Would it be better if I sat in the eggs and ate the chair?”
The best way to answer a foolish question is with another question.
This Tale is from “Tiny Tales of Nasruddin” by Laura Gibbs. The book is licensed under the CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 license. © 2019-202The2 Laura Gibbs
A good annual check up at my VA appointment yesterday. The ‘doctor’ was very satisfied with my total cholesterol level although the LDL was high all the cholesterol ratios were good. The C-reactive protein test results were far below any indication of inflammation. Her only recommendation was to keep doing what I have been doing.
However, not everything real is measurable—yet the immeasurable remains no less real.