The proverb that declares a promise is comfort for a fool may be quite correctly applied to persons who have been suddenly plunged into the ranks of the unemployed and who may be hanging their hopes on the invisible lifeline provided by the Unemployment Benefit Fund.

Danish philosopher Soren Kierkegaard said life can only be understood backwards, but it must be lived forwards. For it is only upon reflection of our lives that we realise what was really important and what was trivial in the scheme of things.