Up, Up, and Away...The North | Shorashim - Israel with Israelis

Up, Up, and Away...The North

In life there are only two things you need to worry about, whether you are healthy or not healthy. Now if you are healthy, there are no worries. But, if you are not healthy, then there are only two things you need to worry about: if you get better or if it you don’t get better. Now if you get better then there is nothing to worry about. But, if you don’t get better, then there are only two things you need to worry about: if you live or if you die. If you live there is no need to worry, but if you die there are only two things you need to worry about: if you go to heaven or if you go to hell. If you go to heaven then there is nothing to worry about, but if you go to hell then you will be spending so much time shaking the hands with all the people that you know that you won’t have time to worry so why worry at all.

This was an Irish folk story, Nirit, our long haired, beautiful guide told us while we were stopped at a cave along the challenging Jilaboon hike. The story related to us and the concerns some of us and our families had before we left, but it also related to Israeli society in general.