life's a joke ainnit?

A guy goes to four of his best friends and asks them, "do you have some change?". What do you think their answer was? Is it too hard to tell? I'm sure that you'll answer the same thing they did, won't you?

The first friend answered, "In times of recession my dear friend, it is often necessary to sever all hindrances". The second answered, "A friend in need, is a pest indeed.". The third, after over-hearing the former asking the latter, decides that it was his cue to turn heels and he made himself scarce. The fourth however, was a little kinder, he asked the friend who wanted the money, "how much would you need?". Five months after borrowing the money from his fourth friend, the guy ended running up loan of which it was fifty times the amount borrowed from his "friend".

Not quite the ending you were hoping for were you? Were you maybe, in your mind, thinking that they would give the guy some spare change and that you would say "Yeah! That was what I would have done too."? What if I told you now that the guy wanted spare change of 500,000.00 (ringgit, dollars, pounds, rupiah...choose one you know of) would you then, still think the same way? Would you then still be as altruistic as you were when we started this sordid story?

Those "friends" of his, were(in order of appearance): a business man, a cynic, a mole and a loan shark. Now that you know the guy's unsavory taste in friends, will you leave him be just like his friends did? Discrimination against a person because of his/her race is considered racist, discrimination against a person because of their gender is considered sexist and discrimination against a person because of their social status is, however, considered as envy. A man eats and drinks with someone of high social standing gets ignored by his clique. Similarly, a man who dines and lavishes in the company of ruffians, he too will be shunned out of the rather esoteric community of his narrow minded friends. I can relate to the guy's many hardships, for, I have experienced the same treatment from my "friends"; if you may. That's why he will never be alone, for, he shall have me as a friend when and where he has none.

Will you do the same and accept someone for who they truly are, like I do?
Or do you reject them, go out of your way to see make them suffer?
Will you be his friend, like I do?
Or will you hate him just because others do, which do you prefer?