Random thoughts on social media
That heart warming feeling when you realize that you’re as much a part of someone’s life that you’ve met travelling as the people who have known that person since they were young teenagers. We may think that they have so many memories with their friends from their home country, as their social media photos show, but we can mean more to them and have a better connection with them even if we’ve only known them for a few months travelling or living somewhere other than our home country. It’s because, we forget that maybe they don’t speak to those people “back home” anymore, maybe those photos and memories from before we met this said person are solely great memories and will always remain that way. We assume, or at least I usually assume, that we can never be as close to someone as all of their friends from the past. We can never go back in time and experience those memories with them, we can merely browse through their photos and take a brief peak at what their life used to be like. We ...