What A Blurry 6 Year Old Facebook Picture Reminded Me About Hard Years and Friendship

There’s very little I like about social media these days. Now and again though, something I see on one of the platforms that stops me in my tracks. That’s what happened yesterday in the form of a Facebook “memory”.

It was a picture from 6 years ago. For whatever reason despite being shot on an earlier generation iPhone, the picture is a little blurry but clear enough to speak volumes to the two men featured.

It was a picture of myself and my longest-running genuine friend, Shawn Wilson. Shawn and I were standing next to each other at a home business event in Dallas Texas.

For entrepreneurs, you know the shot. It’s a typical “event shot”. Lanyards placed prominently around our necks standing in the reception area of a hotel ballroom. Random other lanyard laden people just off to the sides taking similar shots. It’s a go-to picture to post on social media for many entrepreneurs that’s code for, “Look here, I’m amazing, you should be here, we’re changing the world, I’m so cool, etc…”

We Were Young and Dumb Once

Shawn texted me the picture on a Saturday morning. We commonly share a range of things via text. Mostly goofy, off the wall, pictures and professional wrestling videos which…