For the longest time I thought Facebook was just good for playing games and saying hey to the occasional friend. There weren't that may 'occasional' friends and I spend way to much 'real' money on fake games.
Then something happened.
A 'friend' of mine...somebody that I hadn't seen or heard from in about 20 years went on a trip across the Northeast. He Face-booked the whole way. From the train, from the side of the road, while talking to strangers, while eating dinner. Whenever he was having fun or being bored or do anything (or nothing) at all. The way he got involved with total strangers while still keeping his friends close at hand was truly transcendent.
I wish I could have been with him. I wish I could go on my own trip of self discovery.
This is a man who gives out valentine day chocolates to women who don't have valentines (without any though of getting laid - trust me). He falls in 'crush' with the meanest waitress on the train. I can't betray his trust too much regarding some of the things that happened to him out there. Sufficed to say that he came back a changed person. The best part is that he took us all with him on his computer (and with his camera) and I feel like a changed person too. Here I am rewriting in my blog (which I haven't done in years) and I've also been painting, drawing, designing tattoos that I WILL get someday soon no matter what my husband has to say about it.
I'm also looking through some college classes and it's all thanks to him. If he can just leave his life behind and do what he feels he has to do then so can I.
We all need to take a lesson from him.
I'm proud to have a friend like him. Truly. And I hope my son turns out to be more like him than like his dad. Don't tell him I said that.
K
