One of my dearest friends decided this Friendship's day that she is going to get rid of some of her "pretend friends".
There were people on her FB friends page who (she decided) were not worth her patience anymore. So she chose 5 out of them, and struck them out of her life online (i think she means for only 4 of them to be permanently deleted, the fifth one is only being punished :-/)
Take note please, she is now on her way to equalize her online (fb) friends with her real life friends.
If she strikes out 5 of her online friends (who are no longer real life friends) every year at friendship's day; till all her FB friends are her real life friends; and at the end of this period the number of her FB friends remain the same as today, then solve the problem for:
Who is the friend i am talking about? Hah!
On a serious note, what is the difference between an acquaintance and a friend? Was a friend once an acquaintance or was an acquaintance once a friend?
I remember Vasav once theorized about the "s-p-d-f" orbitals* of friendship.
*[Muggles^ please refer to Quantum Mech]
^[Seriously!! You do not know what Muggles are? Read Harry Potter]
Theory goes that if you are an electron & your friend is the nucleus, farther you go (emotional distance) from the nucleus the easier it is to break away from the pull (less energy expended).
So maybe overtime people drift away. Those who were real friends "once" shift from "s" towards "f" orbital; till one day they will be just names on the fb list, waiting to be struck off.
My heart goes out to the victims of Nisha Verma's friendship day celebrations :P
I am resolutely going to stay on as her friend, because she cannot delete me from fb :D
There were people on her FB friends page who (she decided) were not worth her patience anymore. So she chose 5 out of them, and struck them out of her life online (i think she means for only 4 of them to be permanently deleted, the fifth one is only being punished :-/)
Take note please, she is now on her way to equalize her online (fb) friends with her real life friends.
If she strikes out 5 of her online friends (who are no longer real life friends) every year at friendship's day; till all her FB friends are her real life friends; and at the end of this period the number of her FB friends remain the same as today, then solve the problem for:
Who is the friend i am talking about? Hah!
On a serious note, what is the difference between an acquaintance and a friend? Was a friend once an acquaintance or was an acquaintance once a friend?
I remember Vasav once theorized about the "s-p-d-f" orbitals* of friendship.
*[Muggles^ please refer to Quantum Mech]
^[Seriously!! You do not know what Muggles are? Read Harry Potter]
Theory goes that if you are an electron & your friend is the nucleus, farther you go (emotional distance) from the nucleus the easier it is to break away from the pull (less energy expended).
So maybe overtime people drift away. Those who were real friends "once" shift from "s" towards "f" orbital; till one day they will be just names on the fb list, waiting to be struck off.
My heart goes out to the victims of Nisha Verma's friendship day celebrations :P
I am resolutely going to stay on as her friend, because she cannot delete me from fb :D
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| (she hates this pic) |
If i do not lose you, when i loose you
then i know that you are a friend true
[Or i must have taken a loan i am yet to pay you]
Hmm. Lots of people are on fb because of some intent to reconnect. So, if the plan is to get to know someone better than one did in the past, it doesn't make sense to delete someone just because the current state of the friendship is not strong. The same goes for new acquaintances. I think deleting just makes sense if you have had enough of someone..because they have offended you!
ReplyDeleteI agree with you and your comment does not contradict anything i have said. Though people try to re-establish acquaintance through fb, we do have a lot of friends on our page who we dont care about, who we have not talked to for a very long time. So i think it is ok to delete them; they are the online shades of people who were once friends/ aquaintances and now dont bother.
DeleteWhy not delete them?