Mulla Nasruddin and his Lost Donkey

One morning, people were astonished at seeing Mulla Nasruddin rushing into the marketplace, laughing and dancing. His friends came up to him and asked why he was so happy! What good news he had to share? Mulla merrily shouted, ‘Guess what, I have lost my donkey! He ran away last night, and I can’t find him anywhere. Is that not great?’ A friend asked, ‘Mulla, the donkey was your bread and butter. It carried goods for trade. And donkeys are so expensive nowadays. Why are you so happy?’ Mulla had a grin on his face. ‘Ah ha, just think what a narrow escape I had! What if I had been sitting on the donkey? I would have been lost too!’ — — — — — — — — — — — — — — — — — — — — — — — — — — — — — — — — — — — — — That evening, the friends met at a bar, and were discussing Mulla’s bizarre behavior. The common view was that Mullah had been driven mad by the loss of his donkey, and needed to be taken to good hakim. One amongst them dissented. He stroked his beard thoughtfully, and spoke, ‘Mullah Nasruddin is the sanest man in the town. You all just don’t get it. ‘When we suffer a loss we are sad, we weep. Mulla laughed. He was celebrating misfortune. All humans face misfortune — that is life. How many have the courage to celebrate when we suffer a great misfortune, be it in business or relationship or health or whatever? When Mullah said he was lucky not to have been on the donkey when it was lost, as he too would have been lost, he meant he was not mentally riding the donkey — he was dispassionate. <a href="https://medium.com/@Bhavesh_Parekh/mullah-nasruddin-and-his-lost-donkey-4b61dd1becac">Learn More</a>