Translated…
For the First Time in Human History, We Can Stay, Forever Young Inside This Electronic Space, Even, We Can, Live Even Better Compared to When We Were, Younger—at Least, We Can, Online…………
“Hi, how are you?”, out of the blue, on my FB account, came this, private, strange message from someone called, “Echoes in the Valley”.
The display picture looked a bit like her, with whom I’d, lost track, but, it can also be, a scam artist ring that’s, using someone’s accounts. And so, he’d replied a short inquiry, “And you are?”, and, he’d expected something like “I need you to pick me up some things”, or some other tricks, then, he will be able to, report the person’s account as a scam.
“It’s me, IT Goddess, when I was in Singapore on business five years ago, I’d, looked you up, remember?”
from the papers…
“Oh, it’s you, how have you been?”, there are, a lot of his coworkers who were on business in Singapore, she was known as “female computer genius”, with some reputation, and, they’d flirted with one another a little bit back then too.
“Sure, sure! I’ll send you a friendship invite then, you can check out what I’m doing.”
He’d accepted the invite—of course, just as “acquaintances”, and quickly, he’d, thumbed through the goings on of her life, and, he was, deeply, impressed—like that, classic type of person on FB, “Knowing how to enjoy life, flying all over the world, without the worries of living from day to day”, someone who’s been blessed, with the good fortunes in life.
“Wow, I’m truly envious, you trekked all over the world already……retired so young?”, he’d mechanically, sent her an emoticon, the heart-shaped eyes, drooling at the corner of the lips, a mechanical way of showing how jealous of her he was. Then, there shouldn’t be, anything else to talk about, right?
how we interact with one another in modern day…not my photo.
“Hmmmmmmmmmmmmm, I’m, what you called, retired early, so, I’d become, more mobile now.” The other side of the screen, the messages continued, “I’m sorry, maybe, you think, that there’s something strange with the speed of me, typing, slow and fast……… did you see my picture? Do you think, I’m, younger than before?”
This is, an awkward question, especially, toward an old friend, someone whom he hadn’t seen in a long while. As he was contemplating on writing messages like, “Young is Power, the Most Beautiful Things are the Memories”, or some other clichés, she’d not given him any time to react, “Dreams that Stayed Forever Young”.
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And in the end, the man realized, that the woman’s account’s been hacked, and, that just showed, how empty psychologically people can be these days, surrounded by a TON of materialistic CRAP, with absolutely NOTHING that keeps your hearts filled.
Life, the Obstacle Course 