At The Wailing Wall

A journalist assigned to the Jerusalem bureau, took an apartment overlooking the Wailing Wall. Every day when she looks out, she sees an old Jewish man praying vigorously. So the journalist went down to the wall, and introduced herself to the old man. Then she asked, "You come every day to the wall. How long have you done that and what are you praying for?"

The old man replied, "I have come here to pray every day for 25 years. In the morning I pray for world peace and then for the brotherhood of man. I go home have a cup of tea, and I come back and pray for the eradication of illness and disease from the earth." Amazed, the journalist asked, "How does it make you feel to come here every day for 25 years and pray for these things?" And the old man calmly replied, "Like I'm talking to a wall."