A Peak into Those whom You Used to Know
In 2013, I have decided to delete my Facebook app. I thought it was too toxic and I like my bubble. So I lived in my bubble for so long, stripping me off the bane of comparison.
After a decade I decided to reinstall Facebook in my device and I have to check frequently to find rooms to rent. Then, algorithm does its work and starts to show me pictures over pictures of my old friends, whom I knew (or sometimes don’t even know but connected through mutual) during schooling or work.
And how people have moved on. No longer the kid whom used to naughtily prank others and make people laugh. They are now a spouse, a parent and their world is no longer about themselves. It’s about who they love and care. About their achievements, about their lives. All seems changed for them — they have changed or at least, what they want to portray about themselves. But of course people could change, gain new perspectives, and instill more sense of responsibility and duty within themselves. Because now, the stakes are higher and their love and care towards their family sustain it.
No, this is not an attempt to romanticize. This is an offering, particularly to myself, of what the unknown may offer. Being is not the same observing. Only when the experience reveals the emotion within, then only we can answer for certain.
