The Happy Musing for the Day: Your friends are your assets.
Guard them well.
Friends are assets whose values are unknown.
But they are assets for sure.
I remember reading a story of a man of great wealth, Charles Strub who was sitting in his barber's chair in the fall of 1929 when he received a phone call telling him that the stock market had crashed and in one day he had lost everything he had and had fallen into debt of over one million dollars.
At that moment he realized all his money was gone.
But, he remembered he had friends - and he had an idea.
Horse racing had become legal again in America at that time and he wanted to build the finest racetrack in the world.
He no longer had financial assets, so no banks would loan him money.
Instead, he took his idea and began knocking on friends' doors.
Many were not interested, but a few were, including the famous crooner Bing Crosby and the owner of one of the top racing stables, Charles Howard.
Monies were gathered.
Ranch land was purchased near the San Gabriel Mountains in California.
And the magnificent Santa Anita Park was created.
It has been one of the primer racetracks for over 70 years and enjoyed by millions of people during that time.
It came into being because a man with an idea had as his only assets, friends.
The same theme is played out at one time or another in almost everyone's life on a larger or smaller scale.
When there is a need, emotional or material, friends are the best assets you can have.
We must remember to guard them well.
"Life is wonderful!" Copyright 2008 Sally Huss