A friend in need is a friend indeed....

A friend brought a little saying to my attention recently which had the undeniable ring of truth to it. I don't know the author but the words are profound in their simplicity. With apologies to my mother, it is, "Not everyone who gets you out of shit is your friend." I have expended a fair amount of mental energy in contemplating this truth, and I wanted to expound on it a little further.

We, as fallible human beings, have all stepped in our own mess at one point or another. Whether cow pie sized or a small rabbit pellet, life is full of mistakes that need to be cleaned up. We say things we don't intend, we take an action we later regret, we make a mistake that we cannot undo. There are many reasons why things go wrong, but the end result can be a mess of our own creation. The clean up is hard work, but I have concluded that sometimes doing the hard work on our own is the best way to cleanse the soul, not to mention make amends with those we've wronged..