48: The Bundle of Misery - A Sufi Story About the Night God Finally Answered

A man prayed the same prayer every night for decades."Why me? As far as I can see I am the most miserable person on earth. Everyone else manages perfectly well. I am not asking for bliss — just let me exchange my misery with anybody else's. Anybody will do."One night God answered."Gather your miseries into a bundle. Bring it to the temple. Tell everyone to do the same." The man woke up happy for the first time in years.He arrived at the temple. And stopped.Because the bundles everyone else was carrying were the most enormous things he had ever seen.The merchant who always smiled.The woman who seemed to have everything.The man whose laugh rang through the street every morning.All of them carrying something he had never imagined.Then God said — "Now choose any bundle you like."What happened next has been retold for a thousand years.New story every day.Follow so you never miss one.