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A few final words after a day spent celebrating the incredible life of Simon Ricketts yesterday. I use the word incredible advisably. Most of us on this site predate twitter and many of us to the dark ages before the internet.
We would have found it unbelievable that we would forge real, loving friendships with strangers we’d never met, yet the church was full of people who’d met here, become friends, sometimes lovers and even parents. Twitter is a real place, and we’d all met Simon here.
We are the pioneers, the generation who founded this place and are shaping it every day. The one thing we talked about again and again yesterday was how Simon made this place better.
His warmth, intelligence, humility, his precision with language, his judgment and above all his humour brought light into what can often seem a dark world we are all responsible for creating here. We will miss all of that, deeply, but it does not mean that we should give up.
I know that many see twitter as a place to highlight the terrible things that are happening in the world. They may be right. But if Simon is to have one legacy on twitter my wish is that each of us would strive to bring some of his light into this place.
We all have it in us to do this, to make twitter just a little bit better. To share the good things, the things that make us laugh or remember our humanity, or just the silly nonsense that can brighten our days. Hit that retweet button a little more. Redress the balance.
That’s what Simon would have done.
