IT’S this part of the year again we remember our beloved dead, and one
thing just struck me at this moment: my Facebook friends who have crossed the
Great Beyond still remain in my Friends List.
It’s just so easy to bid them the ultimate goodbye. Just a click on a
button across their name and they're gone. But that I haven’t done. Nor have I
tried skimming through my list and start deleting people. You
know, those who have been inactive, those pesky ones who love to share troll-inspired
information or fake news, and those whom I haven’t seen in so long time that I have
forgotten why I accepted their Friend requests in the first place.
Maybe I’m too busy to do that, and I don’t really stay long Facebooking
to afford overhauling my account to root out unnecessary or obsolete friends.
Or maybe, I feel ill at ease with the word “unfriend,” especially in
the case of my wife who died in 2011. I like to think I honor her by
remembering the good times she had with me and her family, and treasuring what
she's left with me.
