I busted out a new personal record with an 8 mile scamper today. I know people run marathons and ultra-marathons, but this is a big deal for me so BACK OFF!
I've been doing some thinking lately. With the internet era, it's become sort of a vogue thing to have facebook memorials for those that die. I really can't decide my feelings on this subject. In one way, I respect it and appreciate it, but in another it sort of rubs me the wrong way.
It just seems kind of disrespectful to join a facebook group in memorandum of someone's death right after you join a group supporting the hunt for the albino squirrel.
And then there are the facebook death wall comments. I hate to look at it like this, but it's sort of like birthday wall comments. It's a requisite. I've never been deceased, but I'd hate to be like "Wow, I can't believe (insert person's name) didn't post on my wall after I died. What a bitch."
I realize the cathartic effect of being able to write a personal message to the individual via their wall, but it just seems almost too easy. If you attend the funeral and the like, then it's all good I guess. What I'm saying is that it's the same difference between getting a facebook message wishing you a happy birthday and recieving a card in the mail.
One thing I honestly take alot of solace in is the fact that I have this very Xanga. If I unexpectantly kick the bucket, I've atleast tried to put down my experience and knowledge in the form of 1327 posts and counting. Good or not, it's my legacy, one way or another.
In my wildest imaginings, it will one day stand next to The Diary of Anne Frank as a microcasm of a period in the form of one person's personal writing.
Don't get me wrong, I'd rather not be captured by Nazis to make that a reality. I'm okay with living out a long and full life.
And I'm fine with letting my xanga posts be lost in time.
Like tears in rain.
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I had no idea this was a trend on facebook. However I do know someone who died unexpectedly and a looming question was "what to do with her myspace". No one knew her info so we couldn't shut it down, word slowly spread that she was gone, and I guess it's a way for people who couldn't go to the funeral or to be a part of the morning to share their thoughts out there in the great wide open.
One of my friends posts often to her myspace and I did find it somewhat weird for a bit--but here I was checking it. And then I thought it's kind of nice to feel like we're still leaving messages for people that are no longer here on earth, eh?