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| is it thursday yet? |
the husband does not
find joy in skimming through other people’s lives. but there is absolutely no
need to dragoon him into checking our personal pages from time to time because
there’s a wife who can’t stop herself from sharing the quirks of two wonderful
people who really matter to him. they are aptly called “our children”.
two thursdays ago, he
suddenly asked me, “why are there so many old photos on facebook?”
i myself just recently understood this phenomenon called
“throwback thursday”. it’s that time of the week when everyone picks out something
from the grave and publicly shares them through facebook and twitter. (i’m only
briefly explaining it here in case there are
still naïve people co-existing with us.) it used to be a twitter thing
until facebook caught up and now old photos are just about everywhere.
i think that 95% of these
photos tend to humiliate more than serve their chunk of nostalgia. but dang,
it’s the only ticket i have back in time when pores and cellulite did not exist
so no, i’m not yelling “nay!”
besides it being a whale of a trend, i must admit “throwback
thursday” is a wonderful moment that allows friends to reconnect, reminisce and
compare notes on their aquanet-welded bangs. my favorite aspect of it really is
when old photos of adversaries bring them back to a time when conflicts did not
exist. such sweet revelry!
i can remember bumping into my mother’s friends a few years ago and i was cordially informed that i had not changed one bit since high school. “you mean i never turned into a swan?!” was the most decent answer that i could come up with.
so much for a throwback. oh, one last thing...
