In Budapest, a man goes to the priest and complains, “Life is unbearable. There are nine of us living in one room. What can I do?”
The priest answers, “Take your goat into the room with you.” The man in incredulous, but the priest insists. “Do as I say and come back in a week.” A week later the man comes back looking more distraught than before. “We cannot stand it,” he tells the priest. “The goat is filthy.” The priest then tells him, “Go home and let the goat out. And come back in a week.”
A radiant man returns to the priest a week later, exclaiming, “Life is beautiful. We enjoy every minute of it now that there’s no goat — only the nine of us.”