Hi it's Andy here and welcome to Radio Headspace and to Friday morning the end of the week.

So a few days back I was chatting with a good friend of mine and he was giving me an

update on his life and spoken so much and he was telling me sort of about what was going

on with his work and at one point he stopped and he just said ah people seriously and it

made me smile in the sense that we all maybe have a temptation at a time to look outside of ourselves

and it reminded me of a very particular story in a monastery that I actually spent some time

in and there was a particular area there which was put aside for retreat before it became a

monk's retreat it was a nun's retreat and it was in talking to one of the nuns that I found out

about this story and it's a beautiful place it's a way in the countryside and you have to walk

several miles to even get there obviously no roads no traffic and you really feel a sense of

isolation down there normally there's probably a handful of people staying in these houses doing

sort of long-term retreat normally a year or more and there's one time a day where everybody gets

together and you share a little bit of lunch and often if the sun is shining you might get your

food and sit outside in the garden in the driveway there and anyway one day they're sitting there

in there the nuns are having their lunch and suddenly a door has slammed and this nun comes sort

of storming out and walks down the driveway and just says they're all effing mad apart from me

and in that moment well one you might be surprised that a nun might be expressing themselves in

that way you needn't be surprised monks and nuns are just human beings wearing different clothes

and with a different hairstyle admittedly trying to find an environment where they can train

their mind but still very much human beings but it was more what she said the idea that everyone

else in the world is mad apart from ourselves I think is a really interesting idea and I think

something that may creep into our minds creep into our lives more often than we think the tendency for

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