I don't, either. Duri's Flickr account batters me like a Sandstorm (one of his favorite songs). I had such a great time with him; though I feel like he was taken away. I feel like Someone said "OK, you've had enough, no more Duri for you, naughty girl."
I have clients I'd leave behind, lost on the superhighway without their GPS. I have many adventures ahead of me, and I try to give them some basic tools they'll need to keep going in case whatever happens.
I think we'll both leave a rich tapestry of what our lives were like, good and bad, our flaws, mistakes, accomplishments, crappy attitudes, hypocrisy, and brilliant philosophical insight-depending on who's reading. I think of what I'd wished previous generations had let me in on, and try to add my modern version of that into my posts.
I'd rather the whole schmeer than a lie or a misleading single facet...unless it makes for a really awesome story, but is recognized as such. :)
LiveJournal will memorialize LJs as part of their policy. I can't recall if I had to email them a copy of the death cert or not, but no one paid for that. Just so you know.
I was 7 the first time I went to a funeral for a friend. I knew he was going to die, and I had been raised around cats and had dealt with them dying before that, so I knew what death meant. I meant him through a mutual friend who babysat me, but he was my friend too, so when he died she took me to the funeral. There were all these people there that hadn't spoken to him since before he went to the hospice, so I had very little patience for them at the time. I didn't go to another funeral until Victor's, although I lost an average of 5 people I knew (some I was closer to than others) from when I was 12 until I was about 30
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I experienced the online ghosts when a friend of Richard Wright's closed down his email account with one final email to his entire address book.
And again when my friend Bill died and his wife did the same.
Then after Jessica died and someone paid to keep her LJ live forever as a memorial.
I don't know how I feel about this. I shudder to think about all the internet ghosts I'll be leaving.
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I feel like Someone said "OK, you've had enough, no more Duri for you, naughty girl."
I have clients I'd leave behind, lost on the superhighway without their GPS. I have many adventures ahead of me, and I try to give them some basic tools they'll need to keep going in case whatever happens.
I think we'll both leave a rich tapestry of what our lives were like, good and bad, our flaws, mistakes, accomplishments, crappy attitudes, hypocrisy, and brilliant philosophical insight-depending on who's reading. I think of what I'd wished previous generations had let me in on, and try to add my modern version of that into my posts.
I'd rather the whole schmeer than a lie or a misleading single facet...unless it makes for a really awesome story, but is recognized as such. :)
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I like this.
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