How many friends do you have? And what do we call a friend? What is friend? How do we recognise a friend?

Well my friend George is one of those I can call a friend! He was the only one of my so-called friends visiting me in the hospital after having the stent implanted. That has happened more then ten years ago. And with George I was not a childhood friend. I met him some 20 years ago as our wives are friends. George is a bank employe who always took care of himself having a healthy lifestyle and was always caring about his friends, ordinary people he met through his work and of course, his family. That tremendous energy he used to make the life of the other people easier and bearable costed him as he had an open heart surgery two years ago. He survived, went back to work and still stayed the same! Caring!

So, once I visited him in his office for some issue I do not remember now what it was, and started teasing him saying that i do not know what will I do if I did not have him as a friend…. and he smiled. So just to ground him, I said – You know what would I do if you were not here? What, he replied? Well, I would find another George! We laughed together, and as his tension eased a bit, it was a good moment to ask him a simple question.

George, how are you?

I am not good he replied, confirming my felling i had the moment I came to his office. Ok, I said. using the scale from 5 to 10 what would be the result of you not feeling good? Full 10, George said! Tension from work that costs us our health and many times our lives was obvious. So, i gave him below words to read!

“Through fear and doubt,
Rises a strength unknown yet,
Courageous heart beats. “

He read it and said: ” So it means that the courage neutralises fear?” I got quiet looking at him with the wish that he will decipher my look. The words are not necessary, as they could spoil the moment. It happens many times. There is a time to speak, and there is a time to shut up. The reaction came! My friend George smiled! He smiled so genuinely, so relaxing, because his brain has changed direction! And all of that came from the heart where the soul hides to give the impulse to the brain. To that brain which is so much abused by different scientists who are measuring this and that, while not comprehending that they will never find anything substantial because they do not sneak into the soul! To do that you need to be genuine, and so many of those so-called scientists are just not organic. They, all of them, instead of judging other brains, should start examining their own first, and not be angry with someone else if they see how ugly it is.

To go back to my friend George. As we were looking at each other for a few moments of eternity I decided to open my mouth and say:

“George, in these moments I gave you my soul. Our souls communicated and yours reacted with smile! Use it to move it further and awake another soul. I am going somewhere else where they might need mine still. This is how we all can find the answer to the question : who am I and what I am doing here, to feel that we know, as we found the way how to know!”

All of the above is answering the question – To be or not to be? with one simple-TO BE!

Without a friend, a real humble, common sensed friend George, I would not BE.

Let us BE!

July 25, 2024

Darko Richard Lancelot

Philosophyofgoodnews.com

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