My friend sent me an email in response to something I had posted that his mother's favourite poem was Footprints in the Sand. In his words:
Whenever things were tough, she would remind us of this poem and say that we never had to take on a burden by ourselves, there was always someone to share it with. That's why it's so important to have a circle of friends to at least email things to, so you know you are never alone and there is always someone to help.
For those not familiar with the poem, it was written in 1936 by Mary Stevenson and reads as follows:
