The birthday of an unknown stranger is today, as you’d turned on your computer, that birthday notice from your contacts popped up, like that jack-in-the-box with the springs???
The birthday of an unknown stranger, what’s it got to do with me, huh??? It’s not, like, it’s MY birthday, so, why the @#$% would I give a SHIT, about it being a stranger’s birthday today? And besides, I’d gotten, too much piled up on this current plate of mine (work, family, and whatever ELSE other sorts of deadlines there may be???) piled up, keeping me on my tippy toes, I don’t got the time, to CARE about an unknown stranger’s birthday today!
not my photo…
The birthday of an unknown stranger, why, do we care? Because we started, focusing on the contacts we’d established, made those connections we thought were important online, and, we’d let, those who are, physically around us, slide???
The birthday of an unknown stranger? Is it my birthday? Nope, that was, uh, ‘bout SIX months ago, and, is it, my two DOGS’ birthday, nope, that’s ‘bout two weeks from now, my family members? Nope, their birthdays are all, passed………
But, because, we thought, that all those “friends” we have online are real, that, is why when one of these, birthday notices pops up from our computers, we’d felt, that smallest jolt in us, isn’t that right now???
and that, is what it looks like…from online.
Life, the Obstacle Course 