The making of friends who are real friends is the best token we have of a man's success in life.Man needs friends to
exchange his views and thoughts,hopes and desires.So he meets others.But the persons with whom he develops intimacy and shares the feelings are not always real friends.When he has wealth and power,many people gather round him to praise and flatter.They are quite anxious for pleasing him.They do all these things with a motive of satisfying their self-interest.Man also thinks them to be real friends and helps them.But whenever these days of prosperity are gone and he is in trouble,they desert him altogether.These fair weather friends leave him along.They no more stand by him in his evil days.They cannot be true friends,because a true friend is he who is with him through thick and thin and becomes helpful in need.
The test of real friends comes only in misfortune.