December 12, 2012
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WAIT A MINUTE.
YOU UNFRIENDED ME?
1 I was practically out the door yesterday morning when some company informed me that three people had “unfriended” me on Facebook.
2 It named names, but clearly names who would never “unfriend” me.
3 For a dollar, it would give me the names of people who no longer thought I was a good friend.
4 What a lark.
5 Like I was going to wonder all day who couldn’t care less about me.
6 Are you kiddin’ me here?
7 All I thought was this: “Awesome. I have something to write about tomorrow!”
8 Unfriend.
9 What a concept.
10 Pre-Facebook, we lose track of people.
11 We get busy with the present, and we don’t exist in the past.
12 We lose track of people, but personally I consider everybody I’ve ever enjoyed to be a friend for life, unconditionally.
13 There is nothing more fun than when I walk into a restaurant, or a store, and run into an old acquaintance.
14 It adds a charm to life, like revisiting a favorite movie.
15 It’s hilarious to me that some company makes a dollar off revealing names of people who are so insecure that they have to “unfriend” people.
16 That is a manufactured concept.
17 It is SO inconsistent with the natural wave of things that I see it as almost pathetic.
18 I’m too busy to even look up, let alone concern myself with someone who has “unfriended” me.
19 People look.
20 Life is too short for you to get all pissy about someone who hasn’t contacted you in a while.
21 Honestly.
22 You are probably always somewhere in their hearts.
23 Get a hobby or something. Help out with a charitable cause. Pee in a cup.
24 Don’t get angry about normal life operations.
25 It’s ludicrous.
26 I just want to say this: If you’ve ever come into my life, and we have had laughs, then you are my lifelong friend, unconditionally. Period.
27 If we have lost track, it’s because that’s what life tends to do.
28 The present dominates our lives. Whatever we are doing is what we need to be doing, whether it is working, or getting more college units, or taking care of the elderly, or simply going in a new direction. It’s who we are, and we often have little control over it.
29 Moving on, Part the First: Facebook and social networking has changed the way we think.
30 I see the whole thing as a lark, but I enjoy the entire concept that we can be re-acquainted with people from our past.
31 It has its own language, and it is controlled, I’m quite sure, by sinister realms.
32 It is also out of control. It makes a landscape all its own, and has brought in a language that is awkward and weird at best. The wheels have flown off life.
33 So what.
34 Bring it. I loves me some rotflmao.
35 Lol.
36 Who the hell talks like that?
37 Thumb up. Like.
38 Hilarious. And SO odd. But that’s the weirdness of how life has changed.
39 It’s like someone flew airplanes over all our heads and sprayed us with stupidity.
40 Moving on, Part the Second: In the past few weeks, I have run into people I haven’t seen in a while. In every case, it has been a sweet encounter. That’s normal. I have had people walk into my classroom after school and it’s always awesome.
41 Throughout my career I have enjoyed running into people from my past.
42 I have never considered anyone from my past not to be a part of my present.
43 It is a genuine smile, and often a lot of laughs and memories.
44 I pretty much love everyone I have ever met, even people who used to irritate me.
45 Life’s short.
46 People come and go.
47 Don’t let the weird world of Facebook shake you up.
48 Embrace this brave new world.
49 As weird as it all is, it is now. It is where we have come.
50 I has strange languages, and is filled with luncacy.
51 When has this planet not?
52 So to those three people who “unfriended” me, kindly friend me back, willya?
53 I’m not losing a lot of sleep over it, and I still consider you an eternal friend.
54 I’m glad I got to straighten that out.
55 I was clearly beside myself. I will now remove my tongue from my cheek.
56 Hope you all have a fun Wednesday.
57 I know I will, now that I got that off my chest. I was clearly distraught and out of sorts. It’s all over me like a cheap coat.
58 Live life.
59 Love life.
60 Forgive and forget.
61 And don’t be stupid.
62 Make someone happy.
63 Peace.
~H~
