How many of us have noticed this quiet shift in life?

When we have money, people come up to us and ask,
“How are you?”

But when we are poor, struggling, or broken, no one asks how.
Instead, if we approach them, the question becomes,
“Who are you?”

Just one small change of letters—and everything changes.

How and Who share the same spelling, only rearranged.
Yet that rearrangement reveals a painful truth about human behavior.

When we are doing well, people who once ignored us suddenly appear.
Messages arrive. Smiles widen. Affection flows easily.
But when fortune turns its face away, time changes—and so do people.

Nobody really asks.
Nobody really cares.

There is an old image that explains this well:
When times are good, even a lion roars proudly.
When times change, the lion sits quietly—
and suddenly, even dogs gather where the lion once ruled.

True relationships are not connected to time.
They are connected to you.

Relationships that survive only in good seasons are fragile.
They depend on status, success, and convenience.
But relationships rooted in you—your presence, your pain, your truth—
those are real.

Those who stand beside you in good times are called relations.
But those who remain when everything falls apart—
they are angels.