Our story this week is Mulla Nasruddine, and he is such a fun character to use for a little snippets of wisdom. The story is obviously set in modern times and he’s going to the psychiatrist. That’s funny in itself because Mula Nasruddine, is this great Sheik, and here he is going to the psychiatrist. It makes us stop for a second and think that our mental health is our own responsibility.
One of the lies we’ve been told in our society is that whatever is going to happen in your mental health is just a given. It has nothing to do with your actual actions.
But in reality it’s more like a fluid flowing river that you can master.