THE SAYING

"Kalamakin" - ( a sketch from my early journal )

Old folks are wise indeed. They have gone through a lot in life. They passed on philosophical sayings that sometimes sounds so very simple but yet so definitively vast. I do not know the origin of the saying "A friend in need is a friend indeed" but one can look at it from various different point of view. I often wonder who was the person who left this wonderful particular saying until today it sounds like a legacy and at the same time sounds like a joke. A caricature.

Was this person babbling to himself because he was conned by someone else who befriended him for something precious that he had. After that something was mischieviously taken from him the so called friend left him for good. In his realisation that he had been conned he mumbled the words "A friend in need is a friend indeed".

Or could it be that this person was old and lonely. Memories of his past often haunted him. Those happy days when he had lots of friends and being needed, was a busy part of his everyday life. A routine. Until one day he got old and friends either passed away or had moved on with their own destiny. So he missed those happy times when he was being needed most of the times by friends. Thus upon the realisation of how wonderful it was when someone needed him, he sighed to himself the saying "A friend in need is a friend indeed".

Or just simply someone who helped this person out of his trouble. They just became bosom friends until the end. Being glad he sang "A friend in need is a friend indeed".