Raw Bads and Raw Goods

“Just take my steak through a warm kitchen. I like my meat on the raw side of rare.”

Debo McKinney was one of the funniest guys I’ve ever known and he liked his steak, bacon, pot roast, and burgers very rare. My brother-in-law Steve has a friend also named Steve who ate only uncooked, raw plant food for a few years. Yes, he is still known as “Raw Food Steve.”

All basic ingredients start in a raw form.

Raw food for a meal. Raw metals to make alloys. Raw materials for a building.

And raw personality to make a deep friendship.

Being raw does not mean being out of bounds, unethical, distasteful, or rude for the sake of being seen as “authentic” or “raw.” Our media age seems to feed the masses with made-up, fake, and contrived emotional outrages labeled as “raw.”

No, we mean raw as 100% broken-down honesty.

Yes, that type of honesty might be rude, but not for the sake of being rude. We might say something emotional to a friend that is out-of-bounds from a place of frustration and honest expression and not grandstanding.

Who knows the raw material you?

Men need a friend to share hard-to-tell stories. We need friends with whom we can say good things that aren’t bragging just plain joy. Every guy wants to let out the disappointments of life so that he can get on with life.

Every time we share the raw materials of our life they get built and baked back into our souls and minds.

And that’s the real point. We grow individually when we are building healthy friendships with other men.

Choose to share your Raw Bads and Goods with a friend and build healthy lives together.