It's truly amazing how much one can learn from this Covid. I mean, even in my wildest dreams, I never thought to use this period to learn about who my true friends are. ("Ah! So, you claim you are capable of thinking?" you say? I can, thank you very much, it's just that I haven't tried so far.)
Quite true, isn't it? How could someone really care for you and remain happily ignorant of how you are doing in these troublesome times? Anyone who had an iota of concern for you would obviously want to know whether you are all right. And, yet, you know what, this intelligent soul who decided to use this yardstick for identifying her friends got such a lot of flak.
Social media, I tell you. They only need a reason to outrage and off they go, delving into their whole stock of abuses; selecting them with care or with gay abandon, depending on their personalities; and hurling them into the vastness of the Internet. 'Narcissistic', 'So that's all you can think of when people are suffering' and so on and so forth. All because the poor soul just wanted to find out who really cared and who didn't?
You know, the interesting thing is that these false friends were blissfully ignorant, had no conversation about the health and well-being of that poor soul, at all. And, as they say, it takes at least two to get into a conversation, unless you have multiple personalities crowding inside you and talking to each other.
AND it takes a particularly self-centered person to BE in a conversation, these days, especially with the other person seeking to know of their well-being, and NOT ask about how the other person is doing. So, the question really is:
'Did YOU care enough to call the other person to check on THEIR well-being?'
