True friend

It's unavoidable. You walk in this world bright eyed when you were young. You came to see that the world had so many possibilities. One of them are finding friends. Friends, are your very first link to what you can become, and what you view yourself as such. You become friends with people first because of similar interests, same area of influence, and having mutual acquaintances. The next stage of friendship is seeing the depths within, and what makes you like them beyond the surface. Dig deeper enough, you find some friends have scratches and burns, have baggage over baggage of crises. A shallow friend would be wise enough to veer away from this. A true friend will empathize, and will stick by you when the storm starts raging.

A true friend will know your innermost secrets and will keep it to his/her grave. True friends will tell you your worst part and will help you build  yourself up to be better.They see the inner spark in your darkest moments.

And the most amazing thing about true friends is they'll stay by you when you are at your worst.
Sometimes, they are even better than siblings. I read a phrase that goes like this: "True friends are the siblings that God didn't give to you."

Working Class (Hero)

The very first time I heard this song was from the cover version of David Bowie's Tin Machine project band.
I was blown away by how they played it. I only heard years later (thanks to Youtube), the original version of John Lennon, which sounded more like a Bob Dylan cover because of its folk style playing. But Tin Machine blows it away and turns it up at 11. And I'm back at the chain gang, working in a place, where another leash is on my neck, while another barks orders at my back. Worst part of this is how your own kind would favor the other either of internal politicking or of preference. They say you get pushed down because you let them. So am I letting them? Or I'm too far off my game to know how to play these cruel games anymore.