What a time to be alive. What a time to find out who your friends are. What a time to decide what a friend really means. What a time to be alive.
On social media, “friends” are people that click a button and say they know you. Some are deeper. Some are not. Some DM you with great memories and then you never hear from them again. Some actually stay in contact and renew a friendship long lost by time and space.
Bob Goff once said that “the average hospital bed has room for 6 people around it. 8 if they are skinny.”
The point is that your followers and friends are not the 6 people you would have around your hospital bed. 8 if they are skinny (or on the weight loss product they are posting on their social media feed). They are touch points in our life that we made at some point. They are people that we may impact or maybe they impact us.
Each one is important. Each conversation real. They may or may not be your friend.
6 people around your hospital bed.
8 if they are skinny.
In this politically charged world we live in, can I ask you a question?
Is it worth losing one of the 6 or 8? Is it worth that post? Is it worth that meme? Is it worth it? If it is, by all means post it. If your cause or belief is greater than one of those 6 or 8 people, do it. Roll with it. Click send.
I have 6 or 8 people that I would want by my bedside in those final moments.
We don’t agree politically. We don’t like the same team. They don’t agree with me and I don’t agree with them.
But I would want no one else but them next to that bed in those moments.
Think about that today. Say what you need to say to who you need to say it to.
6 people around your hospital bed
8 if they are thin.
*Side Note – I realize that a few weeks ago a blog draft post from me was sent to all who receive these posts. I am a writer. It was a draft and I was processing. I was processing. It was for what could come politically. It goes against everything I said in this very post. It was hypocritical. It was wrong. It hurt one of the 8 I would want around my bedside. I deleted it but I can’t delete the damage that was done. Be careful what you put in a keyboard. Journal in a safe space. Journal, process and write anywhere. Be really careful where though. It could go out in an email blast and It could remove one of your 6 or 8 people. Be careful. Don’t post something that would hurt, remove or destroy one of your 6 or 8.
AARON CONRAD 