friends

How do you know your true friends? Most times you are able to know those who care for you when you are in trouble, in grief or working out a loss. As human beings, we meet a lot of people in our life. The ability to pinpoint those that are true friends can at times be very difficult. In my own experience, my friends in most times come through when I am down or going through a problem. Take what I am going through as an example.
I am far from home and I suffered a loss. The most surprising thing to me is that my friends at home stood up to fill the vacuum which my absence created. This is a big revelation to me. Not that they are there for me but that they are doing it. In addition in the new land that I am, friends that I have made are all surrounding me, giving me words of encouragement and sharing words of hope with me. To me that proves the goodness of human beings. Underneath our skins are the urge to relate and help. The question then is, why the evil that pervades humanity? We need to understand that it is as a result of the way we treat news. The media in the modern time glorifies the evil, the bad and untoward news. As they say in journalism, bad news is news. This then tends to colour our perception of human beings which while paradoxical is also tragic. Majority of human beings are hardworking, loving and caring.
Like the dot on a white paper however, most people will see the dot rather than the large area of white paper. How well the world would be if we can just pay more attention to the large area of white paper rather than the tiny dot. There is human goodness and we become better when we encourage this goodness rather than human bestiality.