I signed up last night. Within 30 seconds of clicking the button to invite friends I'd gotten my first one; within two minutes I was up to 8! Day two and I'm around 140; almost instantly finding friends I'd lost as long ago as 28 years. It's mind blowing.
This whole internet thing is mind blowing, isn't it? I mean, my son is in Nepal sending me daily notes and pictures—I remember when it took 2 weeks for a letter to cross the earth and film took at least a week to develop! Mind blowing to me…..but not to the generations under me.
The naughty little secret to all of this awesome techno-wizardry is it the frail foundation upon which it rests. The computer gurus? No. Electricity, you may think. No again. It is more fragile than either of those. Everything rest, ironically, on our being friends—true friends.
When we can no longer be global friends the whole thing will crumble. Wars, sabotage, nuclear disasters are elements powerful enough to pull the plug on it all. The thin wall between us and those is our continued friendship.
Half a century of living continues bringing me back to a core truth: it is critical to life that I love my neighbor.
