Your very very best friend

          Well, who us this very best friend you have ever had? who is this person who will be at your side even as hunger begins to bite and the thought of that last cup of tea drives you mad? And when the shops are closed and many are being looted, when the teller machines are not functioning, and the darkness comes and the cold returns, who is that one person who will stand resolutely at your side and give you more comfort in thus new world , more comfort than even your own spouse, or children?
     It is strange to ask this question for each time you look in a mirror to have a shave or a wash, that person is looking at you, maybe with eyes washed  by a certain sadness now things are changing. A certain wistful look on your face is also reflected in theirs. Quite simply this best friend is your self. No one else. In short you are the best and closest friend you will have or can ever have. Only now as the world is collapsing and anarchy rushes past your door in the early hours, and the dark of night, when wails and shouts and mad assertations are heard, this friend will be there watching over you, and in the comfort of this friendship you will be able to face the terrors of the world.
      Does it begin to make sense at last? Will you finally put away all the anger, the jealousies, the petty squabbles with your neighbour, will you at last begin to find that inner peace and most important that great strength inside us, when we  have to face the times ahead. 
             If indeed things get bad in the next few years, the only resources we have are inner ones. This is why I am so deprecating about all religion especially the Christian religion that places so called redemption in the hands of some god who does not exists. The only person who redeems you is you, no one else,  no one will reach down from some heaven to help, though spiritual help is often given but there is nothing supernatural about this as all is a matter of laws operating each according to their own nature. 
       And do not forget it is we who are able to reach upwards, so we may meet our  spiritual self, half way so to speak. When this is known then we are better able to survive what the world may throw at us. And when the gangs are rampaging and the cries of children are hard to bear, and the sound of anger and hunger go hand in hand, then we are still able to reach behind our own fears into that oasis of peace where this  true friend that we have always had, is to be found  . If we look hard enough beneath our own pain.