A Useful Little Letter

Ladies and Gentlemen,

I used to have an old friend in the mountains who always treated me as if I were his son... After a while he said to me in all publicity that I could visit him anytime... Then he gave me a sign of me belonging to his family...

So I took heart and I asked him for help in a very sincere and very polite letter because I wanted to escape from my foster-father... My friend in the mountains did not reply a single word... So I asked him for help in a second letter which was even more sincere and polite than the first one... He did not reply yet...

In a third letter I scolded him and my friend in the mountains replied by return of post... However I thought that he was a criminal and I didn't even open his letter but I threw it into the river Danube... Approx. 25 years later I was told that my friend had apologised to me in that latter for not answering to me and he had written also that he was on the run, too... He also had sent EUR 1,000 to me in the letter which I threw in the Danube...

I wanted to protect myself from my friend as if he was a criminal so I didn't even open his letter... Still this letter is very touching... I was told that the letter that I had annihilated had saved me from all the suffering at psychiatry and it had been able to even more... So it was called "a useful little letter..."

Best wishes, Joseph de la Mikula and Team