Brief thoughts on Facebook, Sweden & Friends

One of the main inconvenient of Facebook are the people, one could call “ghosts”. The ones you did not see for a really long time, mostly did not wonder what they became and did not think of them. And they find you. Past the first reaction “oh funny, what are you doing now?”, you remember there was actually a reason for these people to be “kicked out” of your life, however it was done.

On the other hand, one of the main advantage of Facebook, is to be found by some people, that a bad reason or a stupid fight kicked out of your life. And all of a sudden, a couple of years later, it just seems so silly that you don’t even understand or remember why you did not keep in touch.

And I have been contacted in the last weeks by a couple of people, I was so glad to hear from again ,it got me all melancholic. The “traditional” linking on Facebook makes you look at pictures you had not seen in a while and moments you were too busy to think of. And talking to these people again, seing the pics and thinking about it, makes me miss Sweden, and especially the people there (some at least).

I miss the crazy Americans that got me drunk (pretty willingly) every two days by teaching me Kings and Fuck the Dealer and threw chairs through the window.

I miss the drunk Swedish guys singing in the queue of the disco.

I miss walking around the frozen lake with my German friend that is satisfied with a Beer and a look at the free sky (no danger, check).

I miss yelling at the distracted French guy with whom we were supposed to write our thesis.

I miss stinking like barbecue after a bone fire.

I miss my North German girlfriend who did everything real girlfriends do but could also beat any guy at drinking contest.

I miss drinking wine and talking until four a.m. with the cute Austrian guy who loved snow.

I miss all that, all which has been my Swedish life for a year, with laughter and tears but as cheesy as it sounds, with people I really cared about. And there is no way I will ever again in my life live such an intense year and create an affectionate bond so strong and so fast as the ones I did there. In the meantime, I still know the rules of Kings, I have the pictures and of course I have you all in my Facebook friends.