A psychiatrist is straggling through the woods, distraught and lonely, looking for the wise monkey.
“What’s the problem this time?!” the monkey asked the shrink.
“Oh my God have mercy,” the shrink said. “I feel as if all of my patient’s problems have become my own. I feel lost in the jungle – I‘ve lost my mind!”
“Listen,” said the monkey. “You’re my best friend! But you have to relax and have patience – that’s why you’re my patient! Our prescription is: go under your favorite tree, relax and look at the beautiful stars. Enjoy the breeze and the moonlight. Drink from the lake down the way if you get thirsty.
Then take two bananas and bushel of grapes. Come find me in the morning,
In the morning, the shrink was ecstatically happy and ready to enter society again. He walked back to the edge of the woods with his friend, the monkey.
“I promise you, you’ll be fine,” the monkey said. “I’ve been through it too.”
The psychiatrist became a wise monkey and the wise monkey went back to being a shrink.
After all, it was the same person the whole time! It learned how to relax.
