I won’t lie.  In my personal email, I get an email box full of newsletters, junk mail, twitter/foursquare notifications and forwards.  I miss the days when people sent emails for the sake of communicating.  For the most part, I’ll delete the sales stuff right away because the subject line does what it’s supposed to.  Communicate what they’re doing and I’m usually not interested in their stuff at the moment.  Bill notifications get noted on my task list, and newsletters get shifted over to a folder until I have a moment to read them. (Some like Chris Brogan’s, get read right away because their content is thought provoking.)  But those forwards?  Like junk mail, they usually get tossed right away.  Every once in a while though, I peek.  Many times they’re annoying.  The walking woman for breast cancer (Fwd her on to raise money. Each gets counted right? ) The Chinese Feng Shui Horoscope.  (If you were born Apr-Jun: You will have a strong love relationship that will last forever. ) or my personal favorite  – the ones with the inspirational powerpoint slides with pretty pictures (puppehs ftw). Every once in a while though, you read them.  Most you delete with only a slightly annoyed feeling to the sender. Others? You get one in million that hits you between the eyes. Deadshot. I got one of those the other day. From my mother no less. Like most other Epiphany, it wasn’t something new. But it came at just the right moment to remind me of that one important fact.

Think about this for a minute…..

If I happened to show up on your door step crying, would you care?

If I called you and asked you to pick me up because something happened, would you come?

If I had one day left to live my life, would you be part of that last day?

If I needed a shoulder to cry on, would you give me yours?

This is a test to see who your real friends are or if you are just someone to talk to you when they are bored.

Do you know what the relationship is between your two eyes?

They blink together, they move together, they cry together, they see things together, and they sleep together, but they never see each other;

….that’s what friendship is..

Your aspiration is your motivation, your motivation is your belief, your belief is your peace, your peace is your target, your target is heaven, and life is like hard core torture without it!

Now I’m kinda against the whole “test” thing. Well… not kinda, I am *firmly* against the “test” thing. I don’t think people should do things like that. It’s like leaving something over at your new Boy/girlfriends house so you can have an excuse to come back. Why play games? I learned a lot in the past few years about people turning their backs on you and how that feels. I’ve learned that life is nothing without our friends and I’ve learned that it’s someplace I never want to be again. I’ve said it again and again and I don’t know that I’ll ever tire of it. If I’ve called you that, thanks for being in my life.