Ask anyone in my office and they’ll tell you I’ve gone off the deep end for facebook. Sadly, they would not be lying.
Early this summer I got word that a wonderful woman I went to UT Drama with, Rebecca Rauscher, had passed away. While I’ve stayed in touch with the two people I was closest with during my college years, now 30 years gone, Becca was one of dozens of BFFs I’d not made the effort with. News of her death was like… what? A bucket of cold water. A great weight. A punch in the gut. All of the above and more. I lived through the HIV holocaust of the ’80s and ’90s when many of my friends did not, but this was somehow different. This made me want to reach out and find a way to reconnect with every single one of those terribly important people I loved so much back at UT.
Enter facebook.
Along with the message about Becca was a little note that said something like “I just reconnected with Mxlpxycky on facebook and told her about it.” (I don’t remember who was just reconneced with, sorry.) So I thought I’d see if I could reconnect with Mxlpxycky too. And I did! And then it was like being in a room while all these amazing people from your past walked through the door to your party one by one. Seriously.
So now a couple dozen of us are once again in each other’s hair, laughing and crying together about global and personal dramas. And planning a real life reunion for next March. I swear it’s like nothing I’ve ever experienced before; the sense of reconnection (I know I keep using that word, but it’s just the RIGHT WORD) is palpable.
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I guess I thought the whole facebook thing was for young folks, although I know it has gotten to the point where authors use it and create pages for their characters and what have you which is why I went to the trouble at one point to reserve the name.
Glad to see you’re blogging again. I’ll check in now and then.
November 11th, 2008
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